Interpersonal interaction in the sciences is a key to success. Here is an anecdote related by Richard Feynman in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech of 1965:
"...when I was struggling with this problem, I went to a beer party in the Nassau Tavern in Princeton. There was a gentleman, newly arrived from Europe (Herbert Jehle) who came and sat next to me. Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party. So, he sat by me and asked, "what are you doing" and so on, and I said, "I'm drinking beer." Then I realized that he wanted to know what work I was doing and I told him I was struggling with this problem, and I simply turned to him and said, " Listen, do you know any way of doing quantum mechanics, starting with action- where the action integral comes into the quantum mechanics?" " No," he said, "but Dirac has a paper in which the Lagrangian, at least, comes into quantum mechanics. I will show it to you tomorrow." "Next day we went to the Princeton Library, they have little rooms on the side to discuss things, and he showed me this paper..."
Finish reading all of Feynman's Nobel Lecture.
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