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James Gleick _ Genius: The Life and Science
The adult Feynman asked: If all scientific knowledge were lost in a cataclysm, what single statement would preserve the most information for the next generations of creatures?
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James Gleick _ Genius: The Life and Science
They could see from the start that Wilson's idea sat somewhere near the border between possible and hopeless-but on which side of the border?
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James Gleick _ Genius: The Life and Science
When people speak of the borderline between genius and madness, why is it so evident what they mean?
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James Gleick _ Genius: The Life and Science
By the time Carl was four, was actively lobbying against a first-grade science book proposed for California schools. It began with pictures of a mechanical wind-up dog, a real dog, and a motorcycle, and for each the same question: "What makes it move?" The proposed answer-"Energy makes it move"-enraged him.
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James Gleick _ Genius: The Life and Science
During a sabbatical he learned enough biology to make a small but genuine contribution to geneticists' understanding of mutations in DNA.
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James Gleick _ Genius: The Life and Science
riches have never made people great but love does it every day-we
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James Gleick _ Genius: The Life and Science
Maybe that's why young people make success. They don't know enough. Because when you know enough it's obvious that every idea that you have is no good.
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