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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The prize is the pleasure of finding a thing out.
I don't believe in honors.
And that's why we called the finished film The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.
One of the things that my father taught me, besides physics, was a disrespect for respectable, for certain kinds of things.
For example, when I was a little boy, in a rotogravure, that's printed pictures in newspapers, first came out in the New York Times, and he'd open a picture, and there was a picture of the Pope with everybody bowing in front of him.
And he'd say, now look at these humans.
Here's one human standing here, and all these others are bowing.
Now what is the difference?
This one is the Pope, and those are the ordinary people.
He hated the Pope anyway.
And he'd say, the difference is epaulettes.
Of course, not in the case of the Pope.
Maybe it was a general.
It was always the uniform, the position.
This man has the same human problems.
He eats dinner like anybody else.
He goes to the bathroom.
He's a human being.
Why are they all bowing to him?
Only because of his name and his position, because of his uniform, not because of something he especially did.
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