John Preskill
speaker
321 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
John Preskill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, the great thing is to be endlessly curious and want to find out.
But if you can't find out, well, live with the doubt.
I have to say, he was quite intimidating.
He looked me in the eye.
He didn't smile or anything, and he said, Yes, sir.
And I introduced myself, and we went off to his office, and he sat down and said...
Well, go ahead.
So I tried to tell him a bit about, you know, I could feel perspiration under my arms as he just looked at me.
He didn't say a thing where I blathered on a bit about what we might try and do.
And he said, well, I just think this is a dumb idea.
He said, but tell you what, do you want to come down to the greasy spoon and we'll have some lunch?
So we went off and we ordered soup and we talked about this and we talked about that.
He asked me, you know, what I was interested in, and I told him I'd studied literature.
And he said rather impatiently, you know, well, all this is just a complete waste of time.
I mean, you know, the only way to look at things is science, and that's the only thing that's interesting.
And I thought, well, I've got nothing to lose here.
And I think rather rudely, I said to him, well, I just think you've got absolutely no business having such a blinkered view of things.
It's just such a narrow way of looking.
And then he looked at me, and this was the great thing.
He winked and he said, I'll tell you what.
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