Example sentences for: feynman

How can you use “feynman” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He colorfully noted that although cells are “very tiny,” they are “very active, they manufacture various substances, they walk around, they wiggle, and they do all kinds of wonderful things on a very small scale” (Feynman 1960).

  • Although at the time of his presentation, the manipulation of single molecules and single atoms seemed improbable, if not impossible, Feynman challenged his audience to consider a new field of physics, one in which individual molecules and atoms would be manipulated and controlled at the molecular level (Feynman 1960).

  • As an example of highly successful machines at the “small scale,” Feynman prompted his audience to consider the inherent properties of biological cells.

  • Toward the end of Richard Feynman's 1959 lecture, he quipped, “What are the possibilities of small but movable machines?

  • James Gleick in his 1992 biography, Genius, the Life and Science of Richard Feynman , quoted the Harvard philosopher, W.V. Quine: I think that for scientific purposes the best we can do is give up the notion of knowledge as a bad job...


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