BBC interview with Feynman (uncertainty)

[metoksipirazin]

0:45 , as he is looking at the atom structure itself :D

[drstrangelove09]

You just gotta love Feynman!

[rahxephon52]

Sage, this guy's a Sage.

[sugarpeepsez]

After listening to Feynman on tape for several years I found it quite disturbing when I first heard Ray Ramano speak. Same accent.

Also, you tubetards are having a flame war in response to this clip. THIS clip? Internets, you disappoint me.

[thedeeliciousplum]

Thank you so much for sharing this.

[Ender0410]

When i say easy to come up with i dont mean, hey bob want to make an atomic bomb in my basement this weekend? No, i mean for world leaders eventually someone would have figured the shit out, and i'm happy it was us. We ended a war with it, I'm not saying some dumb fuck can buy a chemistry set and make himself an a-bomb. By the way kids in there high school projects make solar powered cars, so its not quite a fair comparison there.... I am glad feynman was on our side!

[ieatwiteoutforfun]

FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP

[Ender0410]

If it was so fucking hard to come up with why does everyone have one eh? Because its simple physics. You pretend that just because you dont have the answer it is impossible, we got it first thats it. Everyone will have the means, we just happened to end a war with our means thanks to a great fucking mind. You want to continue to believe it is because of some stupid shit you know nothing about, guess what, it was inevitable, at least we used it to stop killing. Fucking jihad will have it. GLWT MF

[JackeShanTwo]

@Ender0410 So because "everyone has one" it's "easy"? NO, it wasn't easy. It was definitely not simple physics and it was definitely not easy to invent it. Of course we would have one eventually, but that doesn't mean it was "easy" in any way. There's one reason why jihad doesn't have one.

Everyone has a car, but it certainly isn't "easy" to build one yourself from scratch.

You're just appealing to ignorance. Prick.

[max2right]

@kristijanadrian Kiss my ass

[max2right]

@kristijanadrian For a third time. Kiss my ass

[ericanderson5371]

He's someone I respect as well (a hero of mine, actually) but he DID contribute directly to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But what you don't see in this video is him talking about the burden of shame he carried for a very long time for forgetting WHY they were doing they work they were doing when the condition of the war changed. There is a good moral core here, and it cannot be ignored simply to make a contentious statement about nuclear armament.

[Ender0410]

@kristijanadrian Christ you and your non-sense never shut the hell up do they? If you hate this man so much why do you hold commenting on his video in such high regard? Hmm someone have a little doubt hiding in the shadows? dont bother responding with some dumb ass comment cause your comments outnumber everyone elses 10:1, Thus proving your a fucking idiot searching to prove a point you cannot prove.

[max2right]

@kristijanadrian So kiss my ass again

[max2right]

@kristijanadrian Kiss my ass.

[JackeShanTwo]

@kristijanadrian Ad hominem. Really, is that the best you can come up with? Way to go smart ass.

[JackeShanTwo]

@kristijanadrian Aww, please. Shut up with your conspiracy bs. Got anything that could support your claims?

[taostoner1]

@EventisInnovations Its by James Gleick, it was a great read.

[taostoner1]

thumbs up if you read the book "Genius", and got here

[EventisInnovations]

@taostoner1 What book is that?

[deedubya286]

@taostoner1 I'm about 1/3 of the way through it right now. I like the stories about Feynman running mental circles around other people who thought that they were such hot stuff in the brain department until they met him.

[palehousepress]

we found a reincarnation ~ palehouse

[max2right]

I have no heroes but there are two men i hold in higher regard that any others Richard Feynman and Christopher Hitchens

[Ender0410]

@kristijanadrian Not a bit of that makes a shit lick of sense. Sounds like hearsay and bullshit. What did you get bullied by an American kid and have something out for us? What is your country of origin? Please tell me why they would want millions dead? So Hitler wasn't a threat? If we didn't get the bomb nobody would? Cut the 10 year old conspiracy shit out, show me some facts. How about some motivation?? Why would they want all this to happen that you say? Enlighten me. Please.

[Ender0410]

@kristijanadrian Yeah you put your money or wait life on that one and i'll keep mine behind the atomic bomb stopping that sadistic fuck that you seem to be so fond of. You will never be forced to make such a hard decision as he was to SAVE MILLIONS, and thank god for that!

[Ender0410]

@kristijanadrian I'm sure if hitler had it first you would be singing a different tune. If your lips were still moving that is.

[Ender0410]

@kristijanadrian Enough with your bs conspiracy theory's, give me some evidence to back up your sensational claims how about that. Got a link to some proof? . So IBM is responsible for a calculator that helped hitlers gassing "efficiency"? Well lets even consider for a second that i believe all of your jibber k. The atomic bomb wasn't that hard of a thing to come up with, someone was going to do it, wouldn't you choose the country that allows you to sit here and talk about it?

[JackeShanTwo]

@Ender0410 "The atomic bomb wasn't that hard of a thing to come up with".

You're one of the most ignorant fucks I've ever seen on youtube, lol.

[Ender0410]

@JackeShanTwo Ok so if we didn't nuke them to end the war, how many would have died by now huh? what would the world look like? Alot more then died by the nuke, after the nuke it was over, its not like we went on nuking everyone to show off now is it. You ignorant fuck.

[JackeShanTwo]

@Ender0410 Cry baby. Can't read my comment? I commented on your statement that "the atomic bomb wasn't that hard to come up with." You think it was a walk in the park to build it? Trololololol.

[snackajack117]

@kristijanadrian It wasn't a Sunday afternoon in his shed. It was an arms race against the Nazis. He would've been unwise to refuse to work on the Manhattan Project.

[snackajack117]

I have an idea that uncertainty is the root of all fear, incidentally. If only we all felt as this man did.

[Xxd3cayxX]

Too bad religious people can't think this way; they always demand an answer even if its a lie. Jeez, some humans seem so frightened by death or uncertainty that they will cling on to any "belief". That's why I love science and scientist.

[psychosavant]

I have to look at the universe from a scientific perspective; nonetheless, I am absolutely certain of one thing: I exist.

[DaveScott69]

It certainly frightens me.

[69erthx1138]

@kristijanadrian Can you state some of these discoveries specifically please? If they are facts this shouldn't be a difficult exercise.

[Ender0410]

@kristijanadrian I donno what that has to do with anything. I just like the way his father lit the passion to learn in his son, most people cant say that about their fathers. He made a discovery that ended the war, maybe you would've got gassed by hitler after he won, would that suit you better?

[Ender0410]

He aspires me to do for my son, what his father did for him, and which my father never did for me. Does anyone else understand exactly what I'm saying?

[dsbnh]

This video should be mandatory viewing for every half-wit who defends nonsensical concepts like mind expansion and other New Age garbage with the old "We just don't know!" routine. If you don't know the answer to something then you shouldn't attempt to create answers without empirical evidence in a desperate attempt to feel more comfortable about just how little we know. "We simply don't know yet!" must suffice. This is why films like What The Bleep Do We Know drive me mad.

[theOGslagster127]

nexenta

not only do you sound like the younger fitter looking sister of a warrior princess but you believe in God too.

lot of people here seem to wanna worship a sky high IQ and cuss anything thicker like they sure to be.

can you imagine if He gonna bring around the end of the world as promised and all these sci-fck people carry on like that supposed to be a bad thing rather than an end to progs like 3 rok or somenextboredjewbraingeeknogir­lnerdfriends(h)itcomnewyukgive­afuk?uno?

[0warrior4life]

and this is why i love cosmology ..

[stevenreid1990]

@0warrior4life Cosmology? He was mostly notably known for his work in quantum mechanics

[0warrior4life]

@stevenreid1990

yes but what he say in this video applies to cosmology aswell

[theOGslagster127]

sorry

that was an awful thing to say

but seriously

after digs from darwin&einstein done4the religo-nutters

it does seem that scientists hav taken zealotry 2a new level

ur not even sure ur right urselves but ur arrogant enuf2 know ur more right than anyone else since whatever they say don't stand up2the rigours of shit only u claim (in part) 2understand

wk b4 Discovery there was sum fucking SNIDE expert on Beeb24 sayin chink-probe hadda reentry failure

mebbe we dont get the humor on startrek...

[nexenta]

@theOGslagster127 I would never make the mistake to have attached the genius name of Einstein to the name of a monkey ..like Darwin. And you are wrong. You know what relativity describe? I will tell you: the expansion of universe. You know what that mean? That the universe was created.. and not by the monkeys but by God.

[GluttonForSex]

@nexenta God was created by humans, my friend. Not the other way around.

Incidentally, seeing as how humans are descendant from the great apes, it means God was created by monkeys. Seeing what religion has done to this world so far, it definitely shows too.

[deedubya286]

@GluttonForSex I don't know about that. I've never seen a monkey as stupid as God, have you?

[theOGslagster127]

oh and soozy waffle

thanks for your praise but i must defer....

it is actually my mate matty who is the cleverest ever.......

the rockets were still going all corkscrew on the pub-telly when he said:

do you know what NASA stands for? (0.03sec)

and moments later:

she only had to go straight up - it's not like they asked her to fly around cones or anything!

[theOGslagster127]

the 4 pillars of brainybox:

1 genius - tangential? - what way you think

2 intelligence - scalar? - how quick you just thunk

3 dilligence - rigourous? - how well you can be bothered to think things thru

4 memory - distributive? - a whizz at jigsaws but you keep losing the pieces

kbrinks - hope the ressurection aint like that tv game where the contestants gotta go run n' stand in one of two circles - really gonna piss off Yin-man and D-vil if we all go say: we dunno!!

[ahpacific]

Every time I think I'm some kind of smart ass bad ass hot shot - and my ego gets to my head - I see one of these interviews and it reminds me of what a piece of shit I truly am - Feynman was such a genius yet he was so humble and kind and it makes me embarrassed of being how I am - what a legend - I honor this man.

[theOGslagster127]

come on!

you don't need an IK test to know this guy = well-dumb, do you?

you can tell just speed-king to him.

I mean, 1. he Yank and

3. he stoopid and

C. sometime you don't need a super high IQ just thinka things like noone else evah hava thunk before ennit?

Like that swiss guy with the curly hair, Albert Federer, who no good at latin so had 2 repair watches 4a living but made up a theory of relativity tho he so dumb it took him years2 work it out. can b proved on 2 sides A4 so he bust b thik

[suicidewafflez]

@theOGslagster127 You've just created one of the greatest works of our millenia, if not for all of history.

[suicidewafflez]

@theOGslagster127 

[MaLLinz289]

It sounds odd,doesn't it,this coming from a scientist?Still,he'd probably NEED to be fine with not knowing everything to keep his sanity,since he's human and we never know anything for certain.

[Wizard4592]

Sagan says 'billion' in a cool way.

Feynman says 'interesting' in a cool way.

[danceducator]

I would like to purchase this video for educational purposes. Where did this video come from and how can I buy it??

[TamBellyDadMomom]

@danceducator It is from a BBC Horizon programme called 'No Ordinary Genius'. If you are in the US then it was available from PBS on video - you might find it on eBay.

[rajithaify]

@TamBellyDadMomom thanks..

[artregeous]

HIS LIFE WAS PURELY INTERESTING :)HE DIDNT NEED TO KNOW WHY US INVOLVE WAR,WHAT IS FEDERAL RESERVES,WHAT IS PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT WHAT IS MIND CONTROL...HE PLAYED BONGO TO CELEBRATE HIS ATOMICBOMB SUCCESS AFTER HOURS PARTY AS HE TOLD.HE ALWAYS TALKED IN THE FIELD OF OTHER SCIENCES HE WAS NOT SURE HE DIDNT NEED TO KNOW HE ENJOYED TO SPECULATE WONDERFULLY WITH MORAL NIHILISM I WISH HE WAS ALIVE HE COULD SERVE BANK OF ENGLAND MORE

[alghoraba]

you can see fear on his face, 

[suddenlyitsobvious]

Well he might not be frightened but he is frightening me...For a second or two I thought he was gonna bite.

Ok, so it's better to live not knowing than with answers that might be wrong...

Really an eye opener...

[kbrinks]

It's such a simple realization to come to. Yet hardly anyone follows this. I came to terms with not knowing big questions a while ago and it is such a weight off my back. People turn to religion for answers of big questions. But i'd rather not know then believe the wrong answer. It's so simple yet so brilliant to admit this.

I'm fine with not knowing why we're here or what happens when we die...

[viralvectors]

what a honest answer! Thank you for sharing

[anafredd]

I reckon that he looks better older than what he did younger .. he looked like a squid when he was younger.. xP

I'm just saying.

[sugarpeepsez]

@anafredd a squid - as in, a sailor, or as in a tentacled aquatic invertabrate?

[christianapologetic1]

State the obvious why dont ya

[touchinpun]

Feynman makes geniuses look like they took the bronze in the special Olympics.

[kachetil]

this is the point of freedom!you only free when you don`t know!what is to be free!

[ddd1600]

bill hicks and richard feynman are my kindred dead spirits. I am so channeling dead poets right now.

[boxedguilt]

You just have to love Richard Feynman. It was a very, very sad day indeed when we lost him. It's gonna take a long time for a character like him to come along again with such a brilliant mind.

[obdami]

What a beautiful mind....

[NeoPsiTom]

@obdami I agree. He was a good man. I love science. Tom

[zkiekow]

Lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose which is the way it is, AS FAR AS I CAN TELL POSSIBLY. Words of a truth seeker!!

[youjones]

I was waiting for this.

[pornswordtobacco]

thanks for the post nebnoid!

[crexirklev]

:13

[VarialProductions]

"girls are like buses. miss one, miss fifteen, one comin!"

[seaaaaaaaaa]

love this guy

[crexirklev]

0:45 lol

[FuzzyDuck]

Wonderful person.

[RemarMaxim]

What a genius he was

[LucCole88]

@RemarMaxim

Actually, did you know he only had an IQ of about 120? The guy was just very well-read, very hard-working and very good at explaining very complex scientific topics. That's one of the reasons I think I love him so much: he was a normal man that was driven enough to do the profound.

[jimmyshitbags]

@LucCole88 to be honest i think IQ tests are a crock of shit, i remember doing one a few years ago where it was like a bunch of pictures and was pretty much just a spot the difference / pattern exercise. nothing to do with making deductions, reasoning, picking things apart to understand them, which for me is what physics is about... so i'd say his IQ score was completely irrelevant to his profession.

[Ecite]

@jimmyshitbags I agree. I think it can measure intelligence perhaps to some extent, but it definately has limitations.

[telstar68]

@LucCole88 I really really doubt that. The average IQ for all Ph.D. holders is about 125, and he was not an average Ph.D. holder.

[hankaaron1961]

@LucCole88 I think Feynman had his own semantics and used it to develop his ideas.

[Diemedes]

@LucCole88

Normal men don't come up with breakthroughs in Quantum Electrodynamics. He was much more than a normal man, he was a pure genius. Maybe not on par with figures like Einstein, but he was still an extremely intelligent individual.

[LucCole88]

@Diemedes

Look into it then. All I know is that he had a normal IQ. It's even posted on his own website.

[fatmeteor]

@LucCole88 the IQ test result almost certainly only reflected a tiny fraction of his intellectual spectrum.

[Diemedes]

@LucCole88

IQ tests aren't always accurate one's intelligence. He took it when he was in school, as far as I remember. I've taken such a tests when I was in highschool and I got 123, although I don't think the number represents my true IQ (which according to other tests is a bit lower, or rarely a bit higher).

The best and most accurate IQ tests are usually somewhat expensive, and you go through several stages (logical, definitions, etc.). Feynman's certainly wasn't such a test.

[Elephant1960]

Who doesn't love this man?

[Bobbysl]

Thats what i've been feeling

[LucBertolotti]

I wish people were more intelectually humble like Feynman.

[ExNihiloJimmy]

One must be very aware of their spelling when making a statement like that :)

[lutetium1907]

i worship this man!!

[quantumOflux]

It is only intellectually honest to admit it when we don't know something. Honesty is good for the mind, and certainly is good for the soul assuming there is such a thing.

[mattkirby10]

this guy should be riddled with guilt for the loss of lives he is partly responsible for. instead he sits talking as a smug science guru

[FryeNL]

Who are you to tell how one of the most respected scientific minds 'should' feel. In fact, he WAS riddled with guilt. Later in this very same interview he will say: I wasn't thinking okay? As for the guru bit, you couldn't be more right. First lecture i got, my teacher told me to watch his lectures because, apart from being a great scientist, he was an amazing teacher.

[samps1540]

this interview was 30+ years after his involvement with the atomic bomb. If you would read anything on feynman you would know how being involved in that project changed him, the way he viewed the world, and his thoughts on the role that science should play in society.

[irritatedindian]

I wish I could have sat through one of his classes

[notToast]

i wish i could have sex with him

[edudrepus]

What an idiot.

[SuperNerd1973]

This "idiot", as you so callously choose to call him, won a Nobel Prize in Physics. So unless you have achieved any award even remotely as prestigious, then you need to shut the fuck up.

[edudrepus]

I am sorry if my previous phrasing might have hurt your feelings but I am incapable of retracting my comment. I wager that if ten random viewers were to be shown this clip five of them would be outraged. What he said was a polarizing comment. Again I am sorry to be so harsh. You are older than me and probably have more insight into areas.

[SuperNerd1973]

You have not hurt my feelings in the least, you have merely revealed your ignorance. Ignorance not only of who you are talking about, but of what he is in fact talking about.

I would actually one up you on your guess as to how many people would be outraged by what he said, I think it would be closer to 9 out of 10 people. This is mainly due to blind faith, a fundamentally flawed principle which 90% of all Americans follow in the form of religion.

[edudrepus]

"but of what he is in fact talking about." You seem to be quite sure that I did not know what he was talking about. What did you think I thought he was talking about?

[neilzep]

Atheist, Cynic, Pessimist, Skeptic, Sarcastic, Satirical us.

You can thank science and engineering for the ability to read these words on your monitor.

you need to be medicated. Another American with mental problems. Yes,I am a professional.

[SuperNerd1973]

You're a professional what, exactly?

You're claiming that I have mental problems because I point out that science and engineering are responsible for both your computer and the internet.

If you really are professional, then why not make some rational argument as to why you think I'm insane. Instead you make a simplistic and childish jab backed by no clear or coherent evidence.

You sir, are a professional douchebag.

[neilzep]

maybe I was wrong,you maybe just need a high colonic.

[SuperNerd1973]

Walk on home boy, you know you're in over your head. You're just flinging random insults for no purpose other than to instigate an internet fight which, much like you, is completely retarded.

If you have something important to say, something rational or at the very least relevant, please do so. If not then stfu, walk up the stairs from your parent's basement, and tell them that you've been a bad boy.

[sehrelsahra]

i am not near a part of that man brain, neither you, but well loser if you have accomplsih something better than him you tell me plz!! that man has done more than a faggot like you can do in a thousand years

[edudrepus]

Are you religious?

[mattkirby10]

that man new full well that he was working on a bomb. ego was far more in control than his intelligence. now that he has turned on so many philosophical science buffs and given them a buzz of intellect does not by any means justify his part in one of history's worst atrocities. if jews or americans were the vicitims of his ego you would be seem as a terrorist or nazi for falling for his cathartic pathos. i hope u see the light

[jack19790]

Japan lost the war long before they surrendered and they knew it but continued to fight anyway. It took TWO atomic bombs to be dropped on them for them to surrender. Think about that. Two bombs.

[beogradwill]

You are spouting the populist lie that all westerners have been fed. The Japanese had made it clear to the Russians that they would surrender unconditionally if only Hirohito was allowed to keep his title of Emperor. America knew this. Hirohito was allowed to keep his title too so the Yanks had no reason for the bombs except to send a message to the world about how crazy and dangerous they were. Macnamara said as much too. Just like the bay of Tonkin was a lie. And the WMD was a lie. Yanks lie

[jack19790]

Human beings lie, its not unique to just the west. And they distort the truth, and find facts to conform to their views, like you are doing.

Sucka

[beogradwill]

If facts fit it is hardly a distortion. When facts fit it is a sign of the truth. What violence you do to logic in pursuit of your false case.

[wowsa0]

It's easy for you to say that now, but at the time scientists like Feynman began work on the atomic bomb, they knew that the Nazis were trying to do the same, and I don't like to think what the world would have been like if Hitler had had the atom bomb. I agree that the bomb shouldn't have been dropped, it was wrong thing to do because it killed millions of innocent people, but it wasn't Feynman who made the decision to drop the bomb, he only helped build it with for all we know the bestintenti

[paukenkiger]

killed millions? check your history....

[kennydaluz]

If you check history, you would see that it was a race to make an atomic weapon. It was a choice between the Americans or the Nazi's. You probably wouldn't even exist if the Nazi's got there first.

So you are in no position to condemn Richard Feynman for his part in the bombs conception.

[beogradwill]

Would it have been better for the Germans to develop a nuclear bomb first? The scientific community defended their countries and their existence. When the bomb was developed it was military and political authorities who made the decision to use it. They and they alone were responsible for the Hiroshima atrocity and the even worse Nagasaki atrocity six days later. There was no need for either bomb (the Japanese were suing for peace before either) but the second was an inexcusable act of evil.

[paukenkiger]

Japanese were suing for peace? that's a new one...

[beogradwill]

iT'S ONLY A NEW ONE IF YOU NEVER READ A BOOK BEFORE. THE TROUBLE WITH MOST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD IS THEIR IGNORANCE OF FACTS AND THEIR UNWILLINGNESS TO SEEK THEM OUT. THE TV AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA IN THE UK AND US AREN'T GOING TO ADMIT TO MASS MURDER. JUST LIKE THEY DIDN'T ADMIT TO THE BAY OF TONKIN LIE.

[paukenkiger]

wow, you figured it out...I've never read a book before. You are an incredible genius to come up with such a blistering insult. Oh my god, I may never recover from this!

hey idiot, try reading history, instead of watching Chris Matthews and keith Olbermann.

It's not mass murder when you are stopping a war....It's self-defense...but you weak liberals will never understand.

[matjiboktir]

Weak Liberals, can't you guys have a civilized talk. And the suing for peace, check it out. If you can't admit the obvious, that doesn't mean that we are brainwashed by the TV shows you guys are talking about. And you think that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are self-defense, not murder you are very mistaken. Last I remember attacking civilians not military defense is murder. And even the US believe that it was murder, that's why they were the first to help re-build Japan after WWII.

[jack19790]

Japan was defeated long before the bombs were dropped. Imagine being a Soldier or Marine and fighting on mainland Japan knowing that it was already over and any more American casualties were in vain. The bomb solved this. They should have surrendered, and we were not going to fight it out letting more Americans die because of good manners. It's a lesser of two evils scenerio. Obviously the bomb was horriffic, but it speaks more about the stubborness of Japan, not violent America.

[mallamoozoo]

Your paragraph speaks more about American arrogance and self-righteousness than real interest in truth and historical accuracy - YOU JERK!

[neilzep]

Brilliant/Genious beings are functioning for the most part from the Causual body that surrounds the Soul. We are all capable of attaining this realization.

[engiskhan]

Don't contaminate this intellectual thought with your ideas of a "soul". To do so is just really, really fucking dumb. You get a thumbs down you idiot.

[neilzep]

Spirit is everything. Condensation of Spirit is matter on its many levels. Obviously with your vulgarity,intelligence and eloquence has to be attained. There is always the next life. LOL

[soylentgreenb]

"Brilliant/Genious beings are functioning for the most part from the Causual body that surrounds the Soul. We are all capable of attaining this realization."

Man, am I glad I had parents who didn't feel that it was their task to fill my head with all kinds of superstitious mumbo jumbo.

[HubertK28]

You should see "Richard Feynman on "Social Sciences". (Unfortunately: comments disabled).

After 10 years in the field of psychology and obtaining a PhD in psychometrics I have to say: Feynman is absolutely right. Social Sciences, especially psychology and psychometrics, is indeed a pseudo-science.

[marsCubed]

but this is not contraversial, in science physics is also an inductive philosophy, unlike math which requires deductive proofs. physics too is only able to provide falsifiable evidence and is inductive.

 experimental evidence is not proof.

as with psychology, we can only ever give it a best possible guess until someone comes along and demonstrates another better working model which explains phenomena better than before. historical/socio-economic/beha­vioral models work well.

[cosmos34]

What a wonderful, wonderful man.

[Crapulency]

At last, someone speaking some sense.

[Crapulency]

It is often said that everything on Wikipedia is wrong. In fact, its veracity towers above U-tube when it comes to quantum magic and related scientific superstition. Most of it is hopelessly muddled, ridiculous, insane extrapolations from half understood experiments. Everybody misquoted, and all quotes misinterpreted. Even people who are supposed to be experts talk drivel - or are edited in such a way as to imply support for drivel.

This vid is the thankful exception.

[marsCubed]

well, at least with wikipedia, if you spot inaccuracies then you can ALTER them and put something better or more accurate up. you might even consider it a social responsibility to enrich the educational potential for your fellow human

[Gorboduc]

"Which is the way it really is... as far as I can tell... possibly." XD

[robotaholic]

this man is an abolute genius and had effects that will affect the world for hundreds of yrs.

[DrrtyKomunistRecords]

Ahhh.. is this the guy whose voice was used for one of the characters in Waking Life?

[tesla4d]

I don't know, but I doubt it... he died some twenty years ago.

[levont]

No I don't think so. He died some time ago. Also waking life was filmed and then animated over the film. They didn't over dub any of the character's voices.

[anilzor]

Feynman is very interesting and impressively down to earth. Im a fan !

[Retsam19]

This is Richard Feynman, one of the founders of qauntum electrodynamics. His lecture series on physics are a classic because of the way he can break concepts down so that everyone can understand.

[levont]

Agnosticism FTW!!!! True human self triumph, overcoming fear. I find a lot of atheists realize that they are not atheist but are agnostic. A large portion of the not so educated intelligent people who call themselves atheists do so simply because they do not believe in the Christian god.

[levont]

Wow. Finally someone who sees it the way I do. I'll have to do some research on this guy I've never heard of him.

[snylekkie]

Look up Nietzsche's books also.

[levont]

I've read most of beyond good and evil and i stopped reading it because every page just seemed like common sense

[snylekkie]

Good for you.

[egdeltur666]

whats that about?

[francescaemc2]

Feynman hated that crap.

[Techra]

you guys realize he's talking with regards to religion? :)

[csikjarudi]

Yes, and he is damn right.

[XChromeboyX]

He's right with his observations... I will not contend his logic at all but I do have one thing. If you learn a 'truth' you become interested in knowing more truth. Seeking truth in itself is a parodox such as: You gain motivation, discover truth, and seek more knowlege. So then a pattern or trend in behavior takes place. Truth like anything else can never be satisfied. You always seek more. you find yourself wayward until you come to an end. the paradox is that you dont come to an end of truth.

[xzzap]

A counterpart to (or rephrasing of) this paradox is that as more true knowledge is gained, previous knowledge gains meaning within the scope of the larger system. However, a system has no meaning without relating to truth outside itself. This ensures that whenever anything is proven to have meaning, it no longer has significant meaning in relation to those truths that are yet to be uncovered.

[inutilbasura]

beware, the quest for knowledge is dukkha!

[santiagueri]

Not necessarily, actually Budda's quest for knowledge was what led him to overcome dukkha, It's just a different kind of knowledge.

It's like Feynman says, just investigate things for the pleasure of it, don't do it to find any fundamental "truths" that rationally explain why we are here.

[zizanie]

Feynman forever!

[conlol]

This guy is absolutely right; i couldn't have put it better.

[firstwanderer]

Besides being a wonderful physicist, Mr. Feynman was a wonderful person! What a joy is to watch him talking!! The world is a better place since he lived in it...

[GHDEFIANT]

and a darker world since his light left.

[w6257]

Excellent! Thank you.