Tag: nobel prize

Oct 9, 2026

“My main reaction to this project over time was not proud, but was surprised.” — Francis Halzen | Quote of the Day

Francis Halzen — the Belgian-born physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for turning a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice into the IceCube neutrino observatory — on the sentence he gave Nobel Prize Outreach in his first telephone interview after the announcement: “My main reaction to this project over time was not proud, but was surprised.” He went on: “At every step, my reaction was surprised rather than pride.”

Francis Halzen

Oct 3, 2026

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.” — Richard Feynman | Quote Explained

A deep analysis of the line Richard Feynman left in his 1974 Caltech commencement address, “Cargo Cult Science” — the exact wording, the occasion of June 14, 1974, the Millikan oil-drop and rat-corridor stories behind it, and why the physicist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize treated self-deception as the central problem of knowledge long before the age of confident machines.

Richard Feynman