Atdtda[4]: p. 97-99: 5 paragraphs and a camera eye

[Bryan Snyder]

Can I ask where that is from?

On 3/5/07, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
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> > What do you think?
>
> That the point of view takes us as close to the *insideness* of the
> transformations of energy as it can, stops at the math... and claims a
> step
> beyond *that* for Kit. Seems a good time to repeat a passage I quoted some
> months back:
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> OMNI: Do physicists vary greatly in their ability to see the qualitative
> consequences of an equation?
>
> Feynman: Oh, yes-but nobody is very good at it. Dirac said that to
> understand a physical problem means to be able to see the answer without
> solving equations. Maybe he exaggerated: maybe solving equations is
> experience you need to gain understanding. But until you do understand,
> you're just solving equations.
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