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Richard Feynman 1918-1988 – The Value of Art
On this day, February 15, Richard Feynman died in Los Angeles, in 1988. He was of course the Nobel physicist (1965) who was well known for his idiosyncrasies. One of them was that he played the Bongo drum (professionally), and furthermore, from repairing radios to picking locks… to painting and poetry he did it all. So on this day, I will print a poem from one of his lectures, The Value of Science:
The Religious Artist as Skeptic – And the Scientific Method
There are two types of believers in art, or religion, or even science: the true believer, who is constantly testing his beliefs by