I stumbled across this gem in a collection of his letters. It isn't quite a poem in the conventional sense, but I like it anyway, especially the ending couplet.

I stand at the seashore ( Read more... )

I came across this very amusing little fable in Feynman's biography. (Appropriately entitled "Genius"), including the context, below:

Physicists need more than ideas and methods, they need a version of history, too, a narrative cabinet for ordering their bits of knowledge. They discover that it is hard to teach a pure concept without clothing it ( Read more... )

New journal. Used to be asimovfan but I got tired of having such a generic username and rename tokens are $15(!). I will probably take up blogging again, if only because I think my sis is getting really aggravated of hearing me ramble on about the sheer amount of fascinating things out there. And a lot of things I know aren't really casual conversational ( Read more... )