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 said, I did read a novel once.
It was called Madame Bovary and it was kind of nifty.
Then he said, I'll tell you what.
If you want to do something, you go away, think about what you want to do and tell me what it is and I'll say yes or no.
So off I went and I thought, well...
What's he really good at that I can get my mind around?
Well, he's really good at talking.
So I suggested to him that what we should do is we'll start by doing a long interview.
I would ask him questions about his life and work, and we'd go through in a chronological way from childhood onwards, and then see what we got.
And he said, okay, he'd do that.
The film has gone on to become a bit of a cult film in a way.
And I think it's just because of his ability to make people feel that even if they don't understand science or it'd be much too difficult for them to, even if they tried, he makes everybody realise this must be a wonderful way to spend your time.
You know, exploration of the world and trying to uncover the secrets of nature is just the most wonderful endeavour.
I have to say, ever since I got involved with him, I realize I go through life thinking, I wonder what Feynman would say about that.
What would Feynman think about this?
It would have been fascinating.
All this was before the Internet, effectively.
You know, what would Feynman have made of the Internet and the World Wide Web and things like that?
He would very often say, I don't know.
That would be very interesting to find out about.
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