📎 nobel endeavours
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman once said ‘If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics.’ As people who’ve never professed to understand quantum mechanics, The Fence find this statement quite presumptuous, but decided we’d ask some of the world’s biggest boffins how much they do or don’t know about their jobs, life and everything else besides.
TF: Can you do long division?
David MacMillan: Yes, anyone can do long division… it’s getting it right that’s the hard bit.