Introduction

Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was recognized as someone who could clearly explain complex topics in a way that everybody—even those without degrees in the sciences—could understand.

While studying at Princeton, Feynman began recording and connecting t...

Richard Feynman understood the difference between:

• knowing something and
• knowing the name of something

He created a formula for learning that ensured he understood something better than everyone else.

One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of black holes, physicist Roger Penrose tea...