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RICHARD FEYNMAN INTERVIEW
We had the Encyclopedia Britannica at home and even when I was a small boy he used to sit me on his lap and read to me from the Encyclopedia Britannica. We would read, say, about dinosaurs and maybe it would be talking about the . . . Tyrannosaurus
Rex, and it would say something like this thing is twenty-five feet high and the head is six feet across, you see. So he'd stop all this and say, "Let's see what that means. That would mean that if he stood in our front yard, he would be high enough to put his head through the window but not quite because the head is a little bit too wide and it would break the window as it came by." Everything we'd read would be translated as best we could into some reality and so that I learned to do that--everything that I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it's really saying by translating. So I used to read the encyclopedia when I was a boy but with translation, you see, so it was very exciting and interesting to think there were animals of such magnitude. I wasn't frightened that there would be one coming in my window as a consequence of this, I don't think, but I thought that it was very, very interesting, and that they all died out and that at the time nobody knew why.
We used to go to the Catskill mountains. We lived in New York and the Catskill mountains is the place where people went in the summer. There was a big group of people there but the fathers would all go back to New York to work during the week and only come back over the weekend. On the weekends, when my father came, he would take me for walks in the woods and would tell me . . . about interesting things that were going on in the woods--which I'll explain in a minute. But the other mothers see this, of course, thought it was wonderful and that the other fathers should take their sons for walks. They tried to work on them but they didn't get anywhere at first. And they wanted my father to take all the
We had the Encyclopedia Britannica at home and even when I was a small boy he used to sit me on his lap and read to me from the Encyclopedia Britannica. We would read, say, about dinosaurs and maybe it would be talking about the . . . Tyrannosaurus
Rex, and it would say something like this thing is twenty-five feet high and the head is six feet across, you see. So he'd stop all this and say, "Let's see what that means. That would mean that if he stood in our front yard, he would be high enough to put his head through the window but not quite because the head is a little bit too wide and it would break the window as it came by." Everything we'd read would be translated as best we could into some reality and so that I learned to do that--everything that I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it's really saying by translating. So I used to read the encyclopedia when I was a boy but with translation, you see, so it was very exciting and interesting to think there were animals of such magnitude. I wasn't frightened that there would be one coming in my window as a consequence of this, I don't think, but I thought that it was very, very interesting, and that they all died out and that at the time nobody knew why.
We used to go to the Catskill mountains. We lived in New York and the Catskill mountains is the place where people went in the summer. There was a big group of people there but the fathers would all go back to New York to work during the week and only come back over the weekend. On the weekends, when my father came, he would take me for walks in the woods and would tell me . . . about interesting things that were going on in the woods--which I'll explain in a minute. But the other mothers see this, of course, thought it was wonderful and that the other fathers should take their sons for walks. They tried to work on them but they didn't get anywhere at first. And they wanted my father to take all the