I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full happiness and don’t want to be in my way. I’ll bet you are surprised that I don’t even have a girlfriend (except you, sweetheart) after two years. But you can’t help it, darling, nor can I — I don’t understand it, for I have met many girls and very nice ones and I don’t want to remain alone — but in two or three meetings they all seem ashes. You only are left to me. You are real.
My darling wife, I do adore you.
I love my wife. My wife is dead.
Rich.
Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) Today is the 100th birthday of legendary physicist, science communicator and Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman. Feynman was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum electrodynamics, including the introduction of the famous Feynman diagram.
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Adventures of a Curious Character is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. The book, released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman’s life. Some are lighthearted in tone, such as his fascination with safe-cracking, studying various languages, participating with groups of people who share different interests (such as biology or philosophy), and ventures into art and samba music. Others cover more serious material, including his work on the Manhattan Project (during which his first wife Arline Greenbaum died of tuberculosis) and his critique of the science education system in Brazil. The section “Monster Minds” describes his slightly nervous presentation of his graduate work on the Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory in front of Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, Henry Norris Russell, John von Neumann, and other major figures of the time.
The anecdotes were edited from taped conversations that Feynman had with his close friend and drumming partner Ralph Leighton. Its surprise success led to a sequel entitled What Do You Care What Other People Think?, also taken from Leighton’s taped conversations. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! sold more than 500,000 copies
The closing chapter, “Cargo Cult Science,” is adapted from the address that Feynman gave during the 1974 commencement exercises at the California Institute of Technology.
The title derives from a woman’s response at Princeton University when, after she asked the newly arrived Feynman if he wanted cream or lemon in his tea, he absent mindedly requested both.
~ Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJbRAGMpCY0
Richard Feynman’s Letter to His Departed Wife
We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!
I love my wife. My wife is dead.
Rich.
Quod erat demonstrandum – ὅπερ ἔδει δεῖξαι – ΟΕΔ – “The very thing it was required to have shown.”