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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I think a kind of pseudo-science that social science is an example of a science which is not a science.
They follow the forms.
You gather data, you do so and so and so forth, but they don't get any laws.
They don't have them found on anything.
Maybe someday they will, but it's not very well developed.
But what happens is, at an even more mundane level, we get experts on everything that sound like they're sort of scientific.
There's all kinds of myths and pseudo-science all over the place.
Well, at Caltech, he was a hero right up to the end.
admired by his colleagues and by the students.
I don't know who worshipped him more.
And, you know, that he was an extraordinary person and thinker was appreciated.
Now, he was a bit of a narcissist.
You know, he was a show-off.
He did it in a way which maybe irritated some people, which was also charming.
And it's not like he tried to hide it.
You know, he thought pretty highly of himself.
He was an old-fashioned sexist.
Every woman that we ever talked to about this would say this.
But they would also say things... I know a female physicist who... The way she put it was this...
Feynman would do these sexist things like say, would you give me a cup of coffee?
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