David Darling
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349 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 1 Aug
David Darling’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was uh he was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics, and he was a very, very good uh organist, keyboard.
player, piano pianist.
Um, and he he said that he could easily have gone into music as a career.
And he also drew inspiration for his own theorizing from playing music.
So there's a just a direct parallel.
And these these are some of the greatest scientists who've, you know, the 20th century who've said this.
Well, we we talk about happy and sad, it's obviously a pretty sharp distinction.
You could have things in between there.
But if for example I'm speaking to you, let's say I was going to give you some bad news, not not something terrible.
Let's say for example I've just put in a a proposal or you knew about it, I was putting in a proposal for a new book and I'm now going to tell you what the outcome was.
I might say, Oh, Mike, you know, um
You know, that proposal I put in for
for a book, well the publishers rejected it, so that didn't work out too well.
Or if I gave you the good news that it had been accepted, I'd say, Hey Mike.
Guess what?
You know, that proposal I put in, they accepted it, you know.
One's sad, one's happy.
What's the difference?
Well, in in the first case, I was talking very flat.
You know, my speech wasn't varying very much.
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