![]() In the introduction to the Modern Library edition, writer James Gleick gives a brief assessment of the charismatic man at the lectern:įeynman, then forty-six years old, did theoretical physics as spectacularly as anyone alive. The lectures were later transcribed and collected in The Character of Physical Law, one of Feynman’s most widely read books. With those words Feynman ended the first of his famous 1964 Messenger Lectures at Cornell University, a talk entitled “The Law of Gravitation, an Example of Physical Law.” (See above.) The lectures were intended by Feynman as an introduction, not to the fundamental laws of nature, but to the very nature of such laws. “Nature,” said physicist Richard Feynman, “uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”
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