7 Things Richard Feynman’s Love Letter Can Teach Us About Love
He wrote a letter to his wife sixteen months after her death
Richard Feynman was a curious man. “I’m an explorer, OK? I like to find out!” His curiosity won him the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965.
Richard and his wife, Arline Greenbaum, were soul mates.
His love for life gave him the status of an American cultural icon. Feynman wrote many love letters to his wife, Arline.
He wrote to his wife, his daughter Michelle, scientists, fans, students, crackpots as well as strangers. Michelle Feynman collected his words in a book, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track.
He discussed everything from the Manhattan Project to developments in quantum physics and grade-school textbooks in these letters. He wrote with clarity, grace, humor, and optimism.
“Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.” ~ Richard P. Feynman
Of these letters, the most beautiful is the one Richard wrote to his wife Arline sixteen months after her death.
October 17, 1946
D’Arline,
I adore you, sweetheart.
