If you are interested in physics and have not seen Dr. Feynman's 7-part lecture series entitled <i>The Character of Physical Law</i>, you really owe it to yourself to watch them in their entirety [1]. The site's interface has some neat features, such as links into the transcript and notes related to the topic being discussed.<p>Dr. Feynman delivered these lectures as part of the "Messenger Lectures" [2] series at Cornell University in 1964:<p>Lecture 1: Law of Gravitation - An Example of Physical Law<p>Lecture 2: The Relation of Mathematics and Physics<p>Lecture 3: The Great Conservation Principles<p>Lecture 4: Symmetry in Physical Law<p>Lecture 5: The Distinction of Past and Future<p>Lecture 6: Probability and Uncertainty - The Quantum
Mechanical View of Nature<p>Lecture 7: Seeking New Laws<p>[1] Requires SilverLight: <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_Lectures" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_Lectures</a>
<a href="http://xkcd.com/182/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/182/</a> (Maybe someday science will get over its giant collective crush on Richard Feynman. But I doubt it!)<p>Stephen Wolfram on Richard Feynman : <a href="http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/feynman/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/feynman/</a><p>A famous letter Feynman sent to Wolfram :
<a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/06/you-dont-understand-ordinary-people.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/06/you-dont-understand-ord...</a>
His answer on why he does not believe in Computer Science is pretty convincing. What I would love to have happened is a professor telling me that what I am going to be learning is not exactly science. Nobody did, so I spent a couple of years trying to scientify things.
Feynman's view on CS is similar by Hal Abelson's take on the term (see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLUPjefuWA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLUPjefuWA</a>). Abelson's point about CS being more like magic has always stuck with me.
I still enjoy reading Danny Hillis's story of Feynman's days working at Thinking Machines, whenever I happen to run across it.<p><a href="http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/" rel="nofollow">http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...</a>
I'm so terribly bored by the same Feynman lectures reposted again and again to either YC, Facebook, or Reddit. Do a search and they come up again and again.<p>I wish there were more lectures by others spread around. Say John Bardeen, for example.