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Feynman liked to tell a story about how when he was a little kid, he asked his father, "Why do things fall?" As an adult, he praised his father for answering, "Nobody knows why things fall. It's a deep mystery, and the smartest people in the world don't know the basic reason for it." Contrast that with the average person's off-the-cuff answer, "Oh, it's because of gravity." Feynman liked his father's answer, because his father realized that simply giving a name to something didn't mean that you understood it. [http://www.vias.org/physics/bk1_05_01.html]

Feynman liked to tell a story about how when he was a little kid, he asked his father, "Why do things fall?" As an adult, he praised his father for answering, "Nobody knows why things fall. It's a deep mystery, and the smartest people in the world don't know the basic reason for it." Contrast that with the average person's off-the-cuff answer, "Oh, it's because of gravity." Feynman liked his father's answer, because his father realized that simply giving a name to something didn't mean that you understood it. [http://www.vias.org/physics/bk1_05_01.html]

He had a leading role in the investigation of the crash of the [[space shuttle]] Challenger ("behind-the-scenes descriptions of science and policy colliding" [http://www.amazon.com/What-Care-Other-People-Think/dp/0553347845]).

He had a leading role in the investigation of the crash of the [[space shuttle]] Challenger ("behind-the-scenes descriptions of [[science and policy]] colliding" [http://www.amazon.com/What-Care-Other-People-Think/dp/0553347845]).

Feynman cut through the red tape and figured out what caused the [[Challenger disaster]].  

Feynman cut through the red tape and figured out what caused the [[Challenger disaster]].