The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
The late Richard Feynman, the 1965 Nobel Prize winner in quantum electrodynamics, was asked in an interview with the BBC if winning the Nobel Prize was worth it. Feynman answered, “I don’t know anything about the Nobel Prize. I don’t understand what it’s all about or what’s worth what…I don’t like honors…I don’t see that it makes any point that someone in the Swedish Academy decides that this work is noble enough to receive a prize…” Then Feynman continued: “I’ve already got the prize! The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out…” There’s a lot of truth [READ MORE]