Friday, January 10, 2020

A 'new' Feynman quote 

Mathematics is a language plus logic.
                    -- Richard P. Feynman
Actually, I suggest: a group of symbolic languages plus logic.

This little sound bite occurs during Feynman's guest lecture The Character of Physical Law, Part II at Cornell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd0xTfdt6qw

His dialect and mannerisms make him come across like a Norton who has taken a smart pill.
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