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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He, by the way, was in the uniform business, so he knew what the difference was with a man with the uniform off and the uniform on.
It's the same man for him.
No grades.
What was it?
It was Feynman standing in front of the blackboard saying, ask me anything.
You ask me if an ordinary person, by studying hard, would get to be able to imagine these things like I imagine.
Of course, I was an ordinary person who studied hard.
There's no talent, a special miracle ability to understand quantum mechanics or a miracle ability to imagine electromagnetic fields that comes
without practice and reading and learning and study.
You take an ordinary person who's willing to devote a great deal of time and study and work and thinking and mathematics, then he's become a scientist.
The physicist John Preskill.
Feynman officially taught an undergraduate class at Caltech only for two years.
And those were captured by some now-famous books called the Feynman Lectures on Physics.
They're three big red books.
Feynman worked very hard on that.
He thought very deeply about how to organize the material.
And they're rather extraordinary.
I think I didn't really appreciate them until I was a more senior physicist.
When he gave a talk or a lecture, he was kind of mesmerizing and really grabbed your attention.
I have the privilege of calling your attention today to what is probably one of the most far-reaching generalizations of the human mind.
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