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Randi: That attracted all the cuckoos. Mirsky: ...George Hrab... Hrab: Not falling into the trap of thinking the person you're talking to is an idiot. Mirsky: ...

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Steve: One of the things that the film illustrates—doesn't really overtly talk about but the illustration is really clear—is the incredibly important role of some of your teachers who just, t...

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Steve: Tell us about the reason this film came to be. Wagner: Well the genesis of the film was really, producer Michael Drucker worked for awhile in the admissions office at Stanfo...

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Farmelo: And as I said, it was with some foolishness I took it on. I thought that I would simply go through the, you know, material in the books. To [tell you the truth, Steve], I look back now wi...

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Steve: I forget who said it—maybe you said it actually, as the narrator—that "letting the beauty be your guide may only work if you're one of the few super geniuses of the field, where you can ...

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Steve: The PET scan is positron emission tomography and the positron is the antiparticle to the electron. Farmelo: That's right. Steve: And that's used to image people's brains. F...

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Steve: Who was Dirac? Farmelo: Paul Dirac was the greatest scientist produced by Britain in the 20th century and one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. I have to say, though, ...

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Steve: Dennis Meredith is one of the most respect science communicators in the country. He worked as a science press office[r] at Caltech, Cornell and Duke Universities before semi-retiring t...