Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Here he is: Feynman. Sooner or later he was going to show up wasn’t he? Here’s a famous Horizon about the legendary physicist/communicator from 1981, the year I did my A-levels. Why didn’t anyone show me this video at school? Why did his name never even come up? Did I choose the wrong school? The wrong subjects? (I chose Technical Drawing and English, by the way, so I guess that might explain it).

Anyway, about half way through this programme Feynman talks about the difference between scientists who know things and people who write about stuff but know nothing and I realise, with some pain, that I’m in that second group. Bugger.

Warning: the picture quality will have you banging on the top of your computer and leaning out the window to twiddle the aerial. Careful you don’t fall out…