Oh, but clues are what you’re supposed to find in a detective story.
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View All Authors View SourcesNICOLA: You need to write something new. Something real.
DAN: Like what?
NICOLA: Like this, like everything that’s happening right now. Not a silly detective story. Something real.
— Dennis Potter (2003)
The Singing Detective
Nobody knows any machinery. Nobody can give you any deeper explanation of [the two-slit experiment] than I have given; that is, a description of it.
— Richard Feynman (1965)
The Character of Physical Law
p. 139
p. 139
There should be somewhere in the works some kind of principle that uxles only make wuxles, and never vice versa, and [this] would be the thing that makes the whole phenomena of the world seem to go one way. But we have not found this yet.
— Richard Feynman (1965)
The Character of Physical Law
p. 103
p. 103
[T]he earth’s gravitational field never ends, but peters out very slowly in a precise and careful law, probably to the edges of the Universe.
— Richard Feynman (1965)
The Character of Physical Law
p. 20
p. 20
A new idea is extremely difficult to think of. It takes a fantastic imagination
— Richard Feynman (1965)
The Character of Physical Law
p. 139
p. 139
Each small piece of [Nature’s] fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
— Richard Feynman (1965)
The Character of Physical Law
p. 28
p. 28
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns….
— Richard Feynman (1965)
The Character of Physical Law
p. 28
p. 28
Nature herself does not seem to know which way the electron is going to go.
— Richard Feynman (1965)
The Character of Physical Law
p. 141
p. 141