Quote of the day: Feynman’s reflection stands as a guiding principle for intellectual integrity. It calls for discipline, skepticism and humility, qualities that define not only great scientists but ...

As reported in the December 1960 issue of The Month at Caltech, [William McLellan] walked into [Feynman]’s lab with this tiny marvel that took him 2.5 months of lunch hour breaks to build. Weighing in ...

It isn’t really a book, but Richard Feynman’s Appendix to the Challenger Disaster Report is still definitely something you should read. It’s not particularly long, but it’s educational and relevant ...

Richard Feynman looked tired when he wandered into my office. It was the end of a long, exhausting day in Santa Barbara, sometime around 1982. Events had included a seminar that was also a performance ...

In his new book, Quantum Man, physicist and writer Lawrence M. Krauss describes the scientific contributions, and unique mind, of Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman, whom he calls "perhaps the ...

During World War II, physicist Richard Feynman famously cracked safes at a secret atomic bomb project. His actions stemmed from pure curiosity, not malice. This playful approach to understanding ...

Richard Feynman's famous diagrams embody a deep shift in thinking about how the universe is put together. Richard Feynman looked tired when he wandered into my office. It was the end of a long, ...

To many, Richard Feynman is an inspiration. Without a doubt, he was the same caliber of man, as well as scientist, as Carl Sagan, Neil Degrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye. He was a scientist, a teacher, a ...

What was Richard Feynman's early life like? Richard Feynman was born in Queens, New York, on May 11, 1918. From a young age, he displayed an extraordinary curiosity and a keen aptitude for mathematics ...

At a hearing of the presidential commission investigating the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster, Richard Feynman conducted an experiment of sorts in the media-packed room. The Caltech physicist ...