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  • Feynman.... What can I say? Certainly if I tried, it wouldn't be enough.

  • Feynman became one of my heroes several days ago. I had an epiphany watching the "Fun to Imagine" interview (look it up), where science clicked in my head in a way it had never done before. Not the entirety, just a very small part of it. But, it was so simple, so perfectly explained, by such a person who had clear passion for it, it just....fit in my mind. And, I dare say, I'll never forget it.

  • don't want to brag ...but the six messenger lectures from Feynman are available on my channel.

    See - Enjoy and Share!

    /watch?v=JzWzLyGuPRY&

  • Thank you Phil. For sharing this.

  • 555 likes to 1 dislike.

  • Well, I have finally reached the stage of worshiping thinkers.

    Philhellenes, you are one of the people who are guilty of making it happen!

  • He talks a bit like a stand-up comedian. He has that delivery, like he's telling a joke, which is awesome. :)

  • Richard Feynman is my personal hero. If I were a more talented writer, I would write a film about his life without making the man into Indiana Jones, which is what Hollywood is doing now... A true shame.

  • thank you for comipling this video. I have enjoyed watching and reading lots about Richard Feynman over the last year or so. I really started when I wanted to find out more about the nature of light and Feynam has reignited my enthusiasm to learn more about this place.

  • how old is the measurement problem?

  • Whoops, meant to say thanks for uploading this.

  • Halfway through his book "Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman," astounding man.

  • This is so awesome. It was a great thing to wake up to this morning, and I've been thinking about it all day. Wonderful.

  • I had never heard of Richard Feynmen before, but after I watched this video I like him immensely.

  • Most people did. He was a very rare combination: childhood genius, courageous, passionate, witty, an outstanding teacher and speaker, safe-cracker, bongo-player, womaniser at times (yet almost suicidally loyal to his first love who died of TB 6 months before there was a cure).

    At the Jewish funeral for his father, before hundreds, under immense pressure, he wept as he refused to read from Jewish scripture, because, as he told the priest firmly, his "pop" didn't believe it and neither did he.

  • @philhellenes Thanks for this feyn Video, men. :)

  • @philhellenes wow, what an amazing man, will definably read his books, first time i hear about him, but what a great man. Why aren't people more like this? That would be a wonderful world indeed.

  • That was totally epic with this guy doing the jungle drums. Awesome. Cool bit for you phil. Guys like you, Pat Condell, and Amazing Atheist are my heroes. It's like the torch being passed on. Psychedelic

  • He radiates such joy at the wonder of life it's contagious.

    Impossible not to smile right along with him.

  • Overrated and overbearing. Good at calculation, bad at fundamentals. Wonderful phenomenologist, not so good a theorist. Doesn't even belong in the same room as Dirac and Einstein.

  • He has the same regard for names as I do :)

    Remarkable guy!

  • "You can call this hero worship... I call it gratitude."

    I have felt INTENSE gratitude many times while watching youtube videos posted by the likes of philhellenes, Thunderf00t, and patcondell (to name a few).

    Thanks, guys. You're my heroes.

  • thanks for this . knowledge is power . ignorance is death

  • @siliconchipped Ignorance is bliss to those unable to deal with the knowledge. Therefore, ignorance is, on the rare occasion, warranted.

  • This guy just goes to show, as did Einstein, that the very best thinkers are the ones who think in simple, sequential steps. All of his answers were so incredibly simple that their complexity built in my mind as I heard them.

    ... His points were .zip files, basically. :) What a great man.

  • Thanks for opening my eyes up to this guy, had never heard of him before now.

  • He has a very contagious smile.

  • Beautiful video. I'm happy that someone else shares in my awe and hero worship of Professor Feyman - a great person, a great thinker, a great paragon of science and reason! What a marvel of humanity itself he was and a wonderful mix of communication skills and brilliance. We'll miss you professor!

  • I find theoretical physicists to generally be the best philosophers. Quantum physics in particular offers us such an absurd reality that one cannot help to wonder, and to wonder, is philosophy.

    "He who has stopped wondering, has stopped living." -Albert Einstein

  • Absolutely,

    "We are all made of star stuff" - Carl Sagan

    I have taken philosophy courses before and still I find that the best philosophy comes from my physics courses (I study theoretical physics).

  • This may sound absurd but I feel lost without this man being alive. I want to direct all of my questions to him. I'm not smart enough for physics but im smart enough to realize just how much I'm missing out on. Thats such a horrible position to be in.

  • I think you'd be surprised by how much you'd understand if you dig into some of the good physics popularizations there are. neither of us may ever "do" physics, but we can see the picture from afar and appreciate it to some degree. Imagine being born in the past, before there were ANY answers. For the curious, THAT would be the horrible position. :)

  • Most popularizations are not worth the paper they are scribbled on. I'm totally convinced that popularizations do tremendous harm by filling people's heads with whacked out bullshit (brane worlds, wormholes, time machines, and on an on - it's all complete bullshit).

  • Some popularisations by some people who should know better ARE awful. But the ones listed on my channel can't be that bad because I don't believe in ANY of the things you mentioned. Those things are, imo, bullshit.

    I sense you are trying to get a reaction from people and stir their anger. Don't be TOO obvious about it. It looks clumsy. Try more subtlety next time. And yes, I know you'll be back. ;)

  • No not trying to stir anger, but the "cult of Feynman" must end! He's to some extent responsible for it himself. Don't get me wrong he deserves a lot of credit for QED, but it's a bad fundamental theory with no solution is sight.

  • Oh yes, Dick DID blow his own trumpet on occasion. But too many other physicists of note were happy to call him "genius" for it to be all hot air. Perhaps you might consider reading his private correspondences ("Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track"). The ego was more persona than personality, I think.

    If you love physics you should not object to personality "cults" that draw so many to actual physics and who inoculate minds to "woo-science". There are MUCH bigger problems.

  • Barf - you'll never learn anything if you go around making such lame excuses. He's just a man. He was a good calculator. Even he had trouble with the actually hard problems, which he failed to solve as surely as everyone else. QED is a horrible mess, QFT is worse, cosmology is nutty, string theory was always insane and is now dead (fortunately), gravity still lives alone. There is a lot of stuff to work on. Feynman did one good thing - showing how to get numbers from a broken theory. Cheer up.

  • rest in peace Dr. Feynman. you will be sorely missed.

  • After watching this video I feel a bit smarter but more so less smarter than I imagine I am

  • An EXCELLENT video. Thanks!

    You even forced me to look for my Infinity DVD and watch it. Matthew Broderick did an ok job as a young Feynman.

  • Thanks for sharing this video.

    (Perhaps you would like to see my video - Feynman's poem.)

  • Richard Feynman: "I don't have to know an answer, I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell - possibly - it doesn't frighten me."

  • He was great man..and even that is an understatement

  • Very enjoyable video. He was able to convey information in laymen's terms. That is true genius in itself! "The truth is so much more remarkable!" This man had a passion for life. Thank you for posting it Phil.

  • The bit about the wine was so cool for me as it so happens I have a glass of wine at this very moment... =)

  • my newest favorite movie

  • great video - I especially like the two clips at 5:27 - where did you get those?

  • It's from a documentary called "Feynman: Take the world from another point of view". It is available on YouTube, too.

  • Such a perfect portrait of a great man.

  • Wonderful. Thank you very much.

  • Damn, I miss him too. Such a pity the invite to Tuva came too late - he woulda loved it.

    I'm proud I recognised his OJ bongo song right from the first frame. Thanks, Phil.

  • Hi, Phil. Awesome vid.

  • A great man and a delightful character.

  • Phil, what an incredibly good and inspiring video.

  • Awesome video! Thanks for sharing this.

  • DAMN YOU PHIL!!!!.

    i Made a similar vid dunk about Einstein and newton recently and just hadn't got around to uploading it.

    That's that idea fucked lol.

    Great video!!!.

  • Please consider that idea "un-fucked". Post if you're happy with it. Newton is not one of my heroes (though I greatly admire his intellect). His arrogance made Feynman appear meek by comparison. Einstein will always be number 1 to me. What he saw, revealed and ushered in, was nothing short of the intellectual transformation of the Universe.

    Don't hold back on my account. :)

  • Agreed on all accounts lol

  • i once made playlist of the last interview in full length. for those who are interested.

    youtube com (slash) view_play_list?p=42EE810750ABB­42B

    thanks phil for this compilation.

  • Here's to not being frightened!!!

    I've featured your vid on my channel. If you would prefer me not to, just let me know. Thank you again, E-

  • The idea that I might object is not something you need to consider. :)

  • It's silly, but it's just the idea that it looks like I am copying someone else.

  • fantabulously awesome video

    Thanks for posting!

  • Cool tribute... ★★★★★

    Katalyzt

  • one of my heroes

    great tribute video

  • Feynman. One of the good guys. Great post - thanks.

  • I've known his name for a while now, and what he's famous for, but to hear him speak, wow, just wow.

  • @9:53

    Millikan Library :D

  • I've read 3 biographies, 3 books of collected essays and lectures, 100s of the letters he wrote to various people, and watched several hours of documentaries featuring him, but I didn't know him.

  • Wonderful--thank you for introducing me to Richard Feynman.

  • thanks for posting this. I didn't know who he was before but I think I just became a fan.

  • I'm going to have to learn more about Feynman. Interesting fellow, thanks for sharing.

  • "I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence rather than the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence."

    Love this video.

  • Thanks for the compilation Phil. What a great public speaker he was, an inspiration to thinkers everywhere.

  • Utterly charming.

  • what a great man, i love his sense of humour thanks 4 sharing.

  • Thanks again philhellenes.

    I wish I had known more of Feynman when I was coming out of secondary school.

    Consider the bright minds we are cheating by failing to offer an alternative to the primitive and meager awe-feelings of religion... the smart young people who will come to think all adults are as shallow-minded as the religious.

  • A new person, tho not present in my relative actuality, greatly accepted with an open mind.

    =D thanks !!

  • Proof the being a real Dick can be a good thing! He reminds me of Professor Julius Sumner Miller, also a physicist, who was one of the most inspiring teachers I ever saw.

    Thanks for this tribute.

  • Just waiting for him to say "baddabing baddaboom" after something :D

  • Ahhh!! You used my favourite ever Feynman quote about belief in UFOs being more likely the result of human irrationality (for which there is ample evidence) than the result of actual UFOs. That is the best summary of metaphysical beliefs I have ever heard. I also love his quote after investigating the Challenger disaster, when he said "for a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations; for nature cannot be fooled" - that puts "thou shalt not lie" to pitiful shame!

  • Favorited. Great quote from you at the beginning.

  • I've read Feynman's biography, and I have to say, he's an extraordinary human being. Nothing is more entertaining to me than a man that he had to lie about his identity, so that when he gives a lecture, only other physicists would show up. Two years ago I had never heard of him. Now he's my hero

  • The pleasure of finding things out. 20 years

  • He was legendary! I've seen some of these clips before and some for the first time, but it was all worth it.

  • No refunds. You know that. :)

  • The truth is more remarkable.

  • This is a very good video.

    I hadn't heard him talk much before, he made a lot of very quotable lines.

  • I didn't even scratch the surface. :)

  • he was an amazing man

  • Pure poetry. We all have a chord that waits to be struck.

  • I didn't really know much about Feynman before this video. I'm going to go out and read up, this guy was too cool. Thanks for the vid! :)

  • What a brilliant man!

  • Wonderful approach to life - good vid

  • He's a fascinating character. I wish I could understand the physics as deeply as he did.

  • I wish there were 3 people alive that could understand physics as deeply as he did...

  • LOL!!

  • Oh, thank you for this philhellenes. I'm a huge Feinman fan, and I have not seen many of the clips you've shown here. I think that one of the things I admire most about Richard Feinman--is that along with his profound intelligence, he was a man of joy, playfulness, exploration, and awe. He was loved by so many of his students. A wonder of a man to have graced this earth. Amen Richard Feinman. Amen.

  • Oh, and pardon: It's Feynman!

  • I figured I'd just watch a minute or two of this since I don't usually like these kinds of videos, but I ended up favoriting the video. I definitely have to check out more clips on Feynman.

  • Great video. Feynman was awesome!

  • Right On PHIL!!!!!

  • Wow! Thank you. "not-knowing, mystery, awe" my heart in a nutshell... The final minute... that brought me to tears, that terrible place you sometimes think philosophy has led me to... Its the very heart, the very core thought processes of this man you love and honor... I may not possess his words, his language but I know those sentiments intimately and that is not such a bad thing in the end.

  • Surely you're joking Mr.Philhellenes.. He's not in the same league with the towering intellects and great thinkers of our age like Nephilimfree and thevineryhme..

    Just kidding, those guys don't know Dick..

  • Nice!

  • Beautiful :)

  • And he loved a drink in the odd topless bar, one of the most interesting apes to walk the earth.

  • Wouldn't it be nice if the head "holy" guys of the incorporated power hungry "religions" actually "thought"?

  • Great video. I remember when I got out of the Marines, I bought "The Very Best of the Feynman Lectures" before driving all of my stuff from San Diego to Oakland. Best 8 hours I ever spent.

  • Thanks Phil

    That was fucking inspirational.

    I've only heard a little of Richard Feynman but i'll check out more now.

    Thanks again.

  • I love Feynman!!

    What a wonderful character.

  • WE NEED DICK back from the dead. Maybe if God can resurrect him and tell him to preach the world that God doesn't exist.

  • And perhaps solve the energy problem in his spare time :)...

  • What an amazing life. An incredible man, truly worthy of hero worship.

  • Favorited!

    My first heroes were cartoons (Popeye, Mighty Mouse), then sports heroes (Roberto Clemente, Jackie Robinson), and then, once I was able to appreciate them, thinkers. Feynman has long been my favorite of those.

  • Doh! I forgot cowboys (Roy Rogers and the Cartwrights) after the cartoons.

  • A great man !!

  • fuck you can tell hes smart.

  • There's a copy of his book "Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman" at gorgorat dotcom (sorry, can't provide a link directly). Well worth a read if you haven't read it already.

  • Great tribute Phil. You were away for what seemed like an age but you are obviously back with a vengeance. I thought I'd seen all of Feynman on YT but you found some there That I haven't come across. Cheers. *****

  • Greatest physicist ever. One of my favorite authors.

    Thanks Phil.

  • Absolutely beautiful, Phil.

    I could watch Feynman all day. The guy is truly amazing, and you can feel the doors of your imagination opening when he talks about something.

    Listening to Feynman is infinitely more engrossing and englightening than listening to any preacher.

  • @OccamKant: Reading the PHONEBOOK is infinitely more engrossing and enlightening than listening to any preacher.

  • Nice composition!

    He was a feyn man that fellow.

    I also liked his saying "I can live with it, it's even more intresting not knowing all the answers, it's better to not know -than have answers that are wrong"

  • Its to bad that this world has too many people that are dicks instead of actually being "dick".

  • Nice compilation (and glad to see you put a bit of Hans Bethe in there--another great guy).

    I never imagined I'd be saying "I love Dick."

  • Awesome Video.

  • Love Feynman! I really love his analogy of science being like watching a game of chess in glimpses and trying to tease out the rules of the game from these glimpses, with each new theory being a more inclusive one than the last. A true genius. Thanks Phil!

  • The world needs another dick. lol

  • Very nicely done tribute video.

  • Nice.  What prompted this post?

  • Great post Phil.  Thanks!

  • misleading title for sure

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