Richard Feynman on What It Means
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- "The key was somehow to know what was important and what was not important, what was exciting, because I can’t learn everything." - Richard Feynman in 1966
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If you don’t really have a head for math and science, physics may be the most intimidating subject of them all. It’s space and time, the make-up of the entire universe - incredibly abstract and mind-bending stuff, and enough to make a lot of students throw in the towel. And that’s where Professor Richard Feynman really made his mark - of course he did all kinds of groundbreaking work, like his theory of quantum electrodynamics…. he proposed the parton model in the field of particle physics… was even part of the atomic bomb project.
But he was also an amazing teacher, this dynamic and charismatic lecturer who made physics fun. He was one of those rare people who not only naturally understood math and science - he was actually able to make other people understand it too. And like it.
Starting in 1966, science historian Charles Weiner interviewed Richard Feynman as part of a big oral history project at the American Institute of Physics. Recording hours of conversation, Weiner captured the details of Feynman’s entire career, his whole life. In those hours, Feynman talked about his earliest memories - what and who shaped the world-famous physicist - and teacher he’d later become. And most influential of all…. a man who was neither a scientist nor a mathematician - a man who didn’t even have any formal education - his dad.
As part of our special series, The Experimenters -- uncovering interviews with the icons of science, technology, and innovation -- we found this interview with Feynman in the archives of the American Institute of Physics.
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Professor Feynman had an incredible father.
And mother too 😊
I feel like I've seen this one before. Odd.
It seems like Feynman had really top-notch parents. "It's worth the risk," how right she was!
It's true: like Olympic athletes, if you want to be a scientist you should choose your parents carefully.
Her quote takes on a rather ominous ironic meaning when you consider what he helped build (the atomic bombs).
"It was my only experience to how it must feel for an ordinary human being..."
Sean Dafny right? I've spent years comprehending grains of sand compared to this mans knowledge.
The sense that i cant learn everything is fascinatingly terrifying
Rad McCool to me it's very calming not sure why. It's like I get relief.
+DCcrazymonkey maybe cuz you're lazy?
it gives me anxiety
i think is really cool that we cant learn everything .... but we can learn anything
What matters most is what you learn matters to you as a person and what you want to do with it. Knowing something that’s totally useless to you and your passion is, to me, a total waste of space. Of course, there’s more to life than your passion, but I’m sure you guys understand.
I really enjoyed watching this video! In fact, I enjoyed it so much I had to find a way to make it available to a wider audience. That's why I submitted an Arabic translation to RUclips. I hope It gets published soon, and that it captures the essence of what a mind as great as Richard Feynman had to say.
congrats, it's there
hey man, how everything is going now ?
I wish you did everything that makes you happy ❤❤
I could listen to Feynman talk all day. Everything he says is extraordinary.
My entire wealth of ability to learn, think critically, and question everything, I owe to Feynman.
I was a junky for a decade, my preferred spot to abuse myself was the public library.
I awoke one day looking at Feynman's Picture on a book jacket. He appeared so happy, so fulfilled, so intrigued I read, and read, and explored everything, and myself. After 8 years most say I am the most intelligent person they know, my response is completely Socratic.
"I know nothing, I would never claim to know anything. I do know it is completely possible to learn something, but I must first admit I know nothing or my own notions will taint the education that awaits my curious mind."
Thank you Mr Feynman, all my wealth I owe to you. Knowledge is a true wealth far beyond a currency, its a wealth that allows me to do anything.
Well said and an example of how anyone with curiosity in them can become anything. Glad to hear you got better and it's good to feel a wealth of understanding, but honestly the magic of the unknown keeps me waiting with baited breath for every new discovery that marks our progress in understanding the nature of reality.
Thanks for sharing.
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Great story. Thanks for sharing.
How could a person with no college degree learn this ?
@@kalpeshkalal7736 you have all the sources in the world. You can learn from youtube(there are world famous uni. om youtube teaching for free, google it), any online courses, any Richard Feynman or any other scientist's book might be available in pdf format, or on Amazon etc..and many other sources too
Love the style of the illustrator, but when the sound is not so good I prefer some text and keywords, just a tip for practical reasons
+Borghild Olovsdotter yup we're aware the sound is rough. Captions are always available.
+Blank on Blank thanks for watching.
***** good to know! But I just love having the words in the visual presentation, so that I can take in the art, and the content at the same time! But I get that it is maybe not the style of the artist
+PlanetEarth Trimtab sometimes there is only so much work you can do to clean up audio. Our engineers always work on the tape and did what could be done.
I love his voice, but in this instance someone reading his words might carry more impact and spread his fantastic way of thinking to people who might otherwise switch off. He's such a humble guy I'm sure he wouldn't have minded if it meant more people appreciating what it means.
What an interesting guy, I don't often say that because when I do I mean it...
Richard Feynman truly was the world's most interesting man, would've love to meet him.
if only we all were such quality thinkers
We can be! It's just a matter of learning to look at the world with that same sort of incisive curiosity. To look at the perfectly ordinary things around us, and work out all the extraordinary ways they connect TO that world.
An ant colony is never just an and colony, y'know
I've watched the majority of your videos and every time the different artists' animations perfectly capture the tone and enhance the interview so much more. Love them all!
I couldn’t have previously ever thought of Feynman having any difficulty with any math, ever.
Great video; thank you!
[Edited for spelling error.]
that line about not the facts but the process is amazing to this day and just as relevant
He was a genius.
woow this was a year after he got the Nobel Prize ! such an amazing upbringing and an amazing dad!
This reminds me so much of my father
I really enjoyed the art work of this video... It looks abstract.
please find more Feynman interviews
I really enjoyed this video, and the art was perfect. :)
Thank you so much for it
la simpleza y complejidad de Feyman es lo mas
I Love this channel! Every one has teared me up some how.
I always wished these were longer. I guess the idea though is to just get you interested in getting you to go further down the rabbit hole.
EXCELLENT animation and subject, loved it.
What an amazing life he was given, at age eighteen working with some of the most prominent physicists on the Manhattan Project ( oh and, picking the locks there.. lol) to playing the bongos, etc.
For me it started years ago with a documentary on PBS
about his wish to visit Tuva ( sadly cancer robbed him of that wish )
The nation of Tuva
was also a metaphor of his sense of curiosity, how listening to a throat singer from that region for the first time began his quest
to visit there
I love this man
Peace..from Texas
and remember :
The Walrus was Paul
He was not 18, try 24, with a PhD from Princeton.
Yeah, turn on the closed captioning on this one and you're golden. I like this one very much.
This guy seems like a wonderful human being, he represented what a scientist must be, he had curiosity and passion to understand in a better form the universe, but he also took part on project Manhattan, so a scientist should use their knowledge for this kind of thing?
I love these animations based on scientist, i always had an interest in Volcanology, Astronomy and Meteorology. Awesome as always BoB!
"Theres too many books. Id go crazy!" Thats exactly how i feel Mr. Feyymann (rip). I get so much information on economics, academia, radical and enlightenment figures, biographys from pre WW1. Roman and ancienr civilizations. Im so goddamn curios of this reality. And the internet gives me so much access! Im nkt cimplaining.
Very Interesting💓
Amazing what positive reinforcement can do from an early age. It seems like Feynman's father may have had the same personality type (so to speak), consequently directly stacking his influences on his son in the best way possible.
Great animation,,
more Richard Feynman please #blankonblank
do stanley kubrick next.
All energy is in constant distribution and transformation
wish subtitles were added to counter the occasionally inaudible recording and still live it regardless
*love
Modern example- slammed an o ring down on the table after floating it in his ice water during the Challenger hearing. it cracked......."that's what brought down your shuttle"!
Great videos, guys! I like the beds you use -- wondering where I can find them. Any info to point me in the right direction would be great!
The one things I hate
and I mean absolutely HATE
Is when someone says that they aren’t smart enough to learn something
Like, THATS THE POINT
Makes me think of all the Richard Feynman s we didn’t get because of the circumstances of their birth. Even in this incredibly supportive and educational family that raised him this way it’s only because he was born a boy “if it’s a boy he’s going to be a scientist”. Wish everyone got the chance to pursue their interests this way.
very interesting video! tiny feynman looks a bit deranged, though
+erraticbrain | video trash mischievous little bugger
The Great Explainer
I had the same experience with 3 dimensional geometry I couldn't make sense out of it for I was thinking in 2 dimensions
I love the "experimenters" series. Thanks for publishing this, but I'm just curious: who composed the background music? Is it Jahzzar??
3:10 in another interview he said "I was an ordinary person who studied hard", so I think that he is joking here in classic Feynman manner. I don't doubt that it was the only time he struggled with math though.
...and if his father was absent and an abusive alcoholic, we might have lost him forever. To which I ask, how many great minds have we lost?
I love this!
"there are too many books... I would go crazy" uh oh .. the internet
Is this the Beavis and Butthead show from one of those split alternate realities, the one where they were brainy?
Yess. Sounds sort of like ass. Very hilarious. Yes. Indeed.
Nice video but there is one thing i didn't get. What was he referring to when he said "the key is to find what is interesting, 'couse i can't learn everything" ? Was it about all the content available in the world, or was it the way he studied any topic?
He also once said, "I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.” (see his video about the pleasure of finding things out). He meant that understanding things is hard and takes a lot of time, and you have to carefully pick what you spend your time on, or you won't get past what others have already figured out.
at the end he is referring to today's information glut.. pity us.. so true
Great video! I really liked the artwork. Maybe someday you´ll do a video of me, until then, don´t stop doing what you do, it´s amazing. I´m dead serious.
oh where is the video n you
The dinosaur drawing has a problem. At that time, researchers though dinosaurs dragged their tails, not use them for balance like in Jurassic Park.
"To mistake what it is you're supposed to know..." - welcome to the modern world.
You guys already did Hunter Thompson and Tom Waits. Now there is only Frank Zappa left to complete my 3 heroes of all time.
This is so cool
I wish I had a father
Same
3:10 "only time I felt like a normal person when I was struggling at Maths" I don't think he's joking there, bit rude.
Lol high school lvl math must have been so easy for him
His 👪 father was the Greatest 👍🙋
Can anyone tell me about the name of music track used in this video? It's so good.
Can anyone explain what feynman mean here: 3:06-3:15
The content is good but the music is very distracting. Why are you bombarding us with sound?
Beavis and butthead?
Feynman and Fermi, rather.
2:12 - 2:14
This animation is way better
his parents are kind of cool :3
Whish I could buy the older encyclopedia Britannica with out the high tech crap if needing a phone or internet or computer to read it
5:04
...is the reason i dont like high school education. I would rather spend hours or days or months on a hard book rather.
Dont you guys agree? They never tell why a certain formula works in mathematic. Or why behind science facts. Atleast to a limit you know. Why is a good question BUT to a limit. Limit should exist. No pun ;)
Audio🙄
children tend to imitate they parents, criminals, bums, trailer trash, and the undesirable are products of they parents same way those that are admired and desired by the society. This is mostly true in life, as there are also exceptions in life.
Why does Feynman in this video look like beavis lol.
1/9 for ice on the water. remember?
text please
0:30 Interesting to think that if Richard Feynman had been born a woman his father would have probably guided him towards a profession other than the sciences. It would have possibly changed the course of history considering that he was involved in the Manhattan Project.
"If it's a boy he'll be a scientist."
What if he weren't?
A witch
We’d keep making them until it is !
Is the audio bad, or is Feynman speaking with marbles in his mouth?
Must be marbles.
my father taught me nothing he just fed me clothed me and sent me to med school
you guys should do one for Che Guevara!
'K
I want to become Richard's father
Decent, but Feynman looks a bit odd.