...retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the Publisher. Preface "If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge...destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I...

...now know it to a considerably greater degree of accuracy than the number of people living on Earth. "If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge...fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms — little...

...cause. At the beginning of his famous Lectures on Physics (1963), the late physicist R. Feynman said: If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge...fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles...

...the speed at any point if the maximum displacement is known. Atoms, molecules, and molecular motion If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge...fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it). . . Richard P. Feynman That a gas, air for example,...

...modern world view. So Feynman', at the beginning of his famous lectures, puts the question: "If, in any cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be...destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?" and...

...was given by Nobel laureate Richard Feynman at the beginning of his three-volume Lectures on Physics: If. in some cataclysm. all of scientific knowledge...destroyed. and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures. what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? 1...

...will for evermore endure. Lucretius (98-55 BCE) Set in English verse by Allen Dewes Winspear (1955) If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge...little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into...

...the understanding of atoms to modern science can be best summed up by Richard Feynman's statement. "If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge...atomic hypothesis that all things are made of atoms .... In that one sentence there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little...

...by Its Most Brilliant Teacher. (New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995,1989,1963.) pp.4. "If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge...destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I...

...laureate and one of the greatest physicists of recent times. Feynman once asked a group of students: 'if in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge...contain the most information in the fewest words?' There is no record of the replies given by the students, but we do know Feynman's own answer: 'I believe...