![]() I couldn’t reduce it to the freshman level. Once, I said to him, “Dick, explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics.” Sizing up his audience perfectly, Feynman said, “I’ll prepare a freshman lecture on it.” But he came back a few days later to say, “I couldn’t do it. He prided himself on being able to devise ways to explain even the most profound ideas to beginning students. From an excerpt of the book published in a 1996 issue of Caltech’s Engineering & Science magazine:įeynman was a truly great teacher. Absent from the book was a lecture Feynman gave on planetary motion, but a later finding of the notes enabled David Goodstein, a colleague of Feynman’s, to write a book about it: Feynman’s Lost Lecture. Some things make no sense at all, but not because they are wonderful.In the early 1960s, Richard Feynman gave a series of undergraduate lectures that were collected into a book called the Feynman Lectures on Physics. ![]() Nor does the idea that it is somehow logical to say “ Each congregation operates under the Lordship of Christ through democratic processes,” but then spell out a sexist exclusion for congregations who democratically affirm a woman pastor because they believe Christ has brought them together. Choosing that one misguided rule from the “ Baptist Faith and Message 2000” as a test of fellowship, while ignoring so many other aspects of what it means to be a healthy and cooperating congregation, makes no sense. Recently the Georgia Baptist Convention, for the second time, voted to boot from its membership a vital and historic church for no other reason than that those churches have women serving in pastoral roles. Exclusion of fellow believers on the basis of a very narrow interpretation of scripture is beyond me. ![]() What motivates some tongue-waggers to keep insisting, and trying to persuade others, that President Obama is a Muslim, for example, when he has publicly embraced the Christian faith? Why continue claiming that he’s not really an American by birth? What is going on in the heads of those who believe such drivel?Ĥ. Promoting ridiculous conspiracy theories escapes me. I understand that random acts of violence can inculcate terror and give one’s shady organization undue and undeserved power, but I can’t get into the head of an extremist who really believes murduring women and children (or men, for that matter) can possibly honor even the most twisted understanding of God.ģ. Killing innocent people to make a political statement makes no sense to me. It’s not that hard to plan ahead and be responsible.Ģ. I get it that someone who’s already blasted has impaired judgment, but I’m guessing most people know in advance if they plan to drink heavily while out. Going on a bender and then trying to drive back home, thus putting everyone on the highway, including one’s self, at high risk for injury or death. I’ll follow the writer of Proverbs in naming four:ġ. I can understand the basic issues involved, usually, but I can’t comprehend why people would do some things that appear to be patently irresponsible, unloving, or spiteful. I often run across news stories or events that make no sense to me because of their apparent absurdity. Those things defy comprehension because of their wonder. There are three things that are too wonderful for me,Īnd the way of a man with a woman. The Book of Proverbs speaks of things that appear beyond human understanding:
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