R. Feynman on awards and honors in science

love this perspective "the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out ... the kick in the discovery"

He would have been a great neighbor. It would have been fun to hang out around the firepit with him, play bongos, and talk about life.

He got that type of thinking from his father who also told him to be skeptical about authority figures. One time, Richard's father showed him a picture of the Pope and told him why everyone was bowing to him. His father said it was only because of his position and uniform.

This is brilliant. I’m yet to win a noble prize, 🤭 and now, I don’t want one 😆

The more I hear Feynman and the more I see him on video the better I like him. That is not true about most physicists. He had a Sherlock Holmsian excitement about solving mysteries and like Holmes the case was its own reward.

Genius:

That eureka moment and its cascading revaluation is reward enough.

the pleasure of discovering something and working with like minded people is the reward

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