John Preskill

And he worked that out.

But another thing, the atmosphere is thinner, so there's less wind.

And that's not going to work up, you know, such high waves blowing across the surface of the water.

How high will the waves be?

And he worked that out.

And Kip came away from this enormously inspired.

You know, you can just look at nature and you ask questions and you can calculate answers.

Because of the success of science, there is a kind of a

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.