My favorite quote of his: “What I cannot do, I do not understand.” I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of that one.
He has a well-known reputation for being a superb teacher. He took his teaching seriously and worked very hard to perfect his craft. I love this story: a graduate student went down to the Cal Tech physics building at 7am one Sunday and he’s working in what he believes is an empty building when he hears a familiar voice. He follows the voice and finds the world’s greatest living physicist lecturing to an otherwise empty lecture hall, rehearsing for his Physics 101 lecture the next day.
James Gleick wrote an excellent biography, Genius. Highly recommended.
He has a well-known reputation for being a superb teacher. He took his teaching seriously and worked very hard to perfect his craft. I love this story: a graduate student went down to the Cal Tech physics building at 7am one Sunday and he’s working in what he believes is an empty building when he hears a familiar voice. He follows the voice and finds the world’s greatest living physicist lecturing to an otherwise empty lecture hall, rehearsing for his Physics 101 lecture the next day.
James Gleick wrote an excellent biography, Genius. Highly recommended.