Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock.
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Nationality: English Type: Mathematician Born: May 14, 1701 Death: May 20, 1782 |
I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them.
Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.