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Tim Palmer: The Primacy of Doubt

The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

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The Primacy of Doubt

The phrase, the primacy of doubt, actually I took from the biography of Feynman by James Glick. And that aspect of... Well that fundamental aspect of skepticism, which is really what it's all about, is so important. So yeah, anyway, I didn't know whether Feynman reached across the Atlantic as much as Hoyle and the rest. Anyway, so you were hooked and you were going to do general relativity, which you did do. We went and did a PhD in general relativity, right? Working with ... Dennis Shama. He famously supervised Stephen Hawking in Cambridge. Martin Riesztoff is one of Dennis's students. Yeah, he was

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