The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

in Science, Video - Science | December 30th, 2008 7 Comments

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out was produced in 1981 by the BBC and PBS, and it features Richard Feynman, the charismatic, Nobel prize-winning physicist, talking in a very personal way about the joys of scientific discovery, and how he developed his enthusiasm for science. About the program, Harry Kroto (winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry) apparently said:  ”The 1981 Feynman Horizon is the best science program I have ever seen. This is not just my opinion – it is also the opinion of many of the best scientists that I know who have seen the program… It should be mandatory viewing for all students whether they be science or arts students.”

The program runs about 50 minutes.


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  1. Stephen says . . . | January 2, 2009 / 10:02 pm

    The program is available as one single video on Google Video here = http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8777381378502286852

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  3. Richard Feynman: Fun to Imagine « Later On says . . . | September 2, 2010 / 7:27 am

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