Feynman Chaser - The Key to Science

[simon0596]

@trinitymike, based on your comment there, I doubt you'd be pleased at his comments re: global warming

[thegeffc]

Very enjoyable thank you

[beyondgirl]

please add some english subtitles!

this would be very helpful!

Thank you very much

[simonxx386]

This guy was more than a great phycicist he was a great human being - if it were possible to choose ones father I would not hesitate to choose this man.

[bozolazic]

I have learned more from Richard Feynman than I have throughout my schooling.

[Ahiga4545]

@bozolazic  Well said, same here.

[bozolazic]

@Ahiga4545 Excellent teacher Richard is, he can make almost anything interesting.He has a zest for life.

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

― Albert Einstein---------I think not paying attention in class saved me in many ways.(;

[AtSB213]

I would like this video if youtube wasn't so shitty on actually loading the video.

[astroboomboy]

I've ended up with a major in chinese though/philosophy and language. But now, I realize that it is science that I should have spent my time on. Oh, how I always realize what I should have done to late! Well, life goes on...

[nbachmann]

Feynman cuts to the core of the thing as usual. God I miss Feynman.

[trinitymike]

@nbachmann Feynmann was (and continues to be, through his books and these videos) one of Humanity's treasures.....I'd LOVE to have seen how he articulated his thoughts about the Bush Years and Sarah Palin's "Fruit Fly" remarks...

[skydome29]

@mballzhari hate...feynman? together?

[nikanj]

For those of you who are interest in seeing the complete series of Cornell lectures called "The Character of Physical Law." Bill Gates bought the rights and made them free online.

Google "Project Tuva." (Great name :P)

[hyde2042]

@nikanj Thanks for the info

[GmanNetworks]

Anyone else notice how this guy's Ps look like Fs?

[MonicaKn17]

Nice handwriting. This guy has expelled the stereotype that physicists have bad handwriting.

[ntipouan]

@MonicaKn17 As it seems older generations used to practice in calligraphy. Sad we've lost it with the technology and all that...

[MonicaKn17]

@ntipouan

I practice calligraphy, and i've been improving as a hobby :)

But i always hear that physicists have 'bad handwriting', and my friends used to tease me and say that i wouldn't be as epic as a physicist because my writing was pretty. And all the cool physicists had bad handwriting. That's why i liked that fact that one of my role models went against that stereotype :)

[ntipouan]

@MonicaKn17 Don't worry...Having good handwriting won't ruin the physicist in you...;) On the other hand, if you want to be able to communicate with your pupils, good handwriting is needed, whatever class you're teaching.

[AtomicRooster190]

I'm going to legally change my name to Experiment.

[andytheweb]

Why are they laughing? Oh yes, because they're american of course..

[PhysicsMathMan]

@andytheweb read the top rated comment turd

[andytheweb]

@PhysicsMathMan ironic how you used the term "turd" in your reply - typical vocabulary of a brown-noser...

[smuldia]

@andytheweb And why are you making that comment? Oh yes, because you are an imbecile.

[andytheweb]

@smuldia I actually have a degree in physics Smuldia, what do you have? Apart from the clap of course..

[subash3]

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

[shizzleman8]

@subash3 Empiricism is the equivalent of experience not scientific experiment. Experimenting only addresses objects in reality yet abstracts away subjective knowers and their exeriential interactions with objects. Scientists start off with hypotheses after first choosing what to research, there's no objectivity before the dice have been rolled once. :)

[RustyCyler]

"If it disagrees with experiment, its wrong. And that simple statement is the key to science."

[leparditas]

now all his student old. it weird...

[ntipouan]

@leparditas Tempus Fugit !

[buckley54]

Great stuff guys - Bogbrush

[fatmeteor]

@dinkipooxa he often consulted his notes in his lectures, especially where you see that he had a formulated sentence he wanted to say. It does sometimes seem at times a semi-self consciousness which wouldn't appear to fit with his character but somehow made him more endearing anyway. I imagine that he had to discipline himself from getting carried away from a topic on the current of his enthusiasm, for the sake of time.

[quillendaniel]

And guessing is the best part.......!

[thecowardman]

Simple, clear and elegant

[slovakmath]

i would have done anything to be alive then to be able to attend these lectures

[98jturnbull]

@slovakmath calm down

[LeMegasandwich]

@slovakmath likewise!

[astrokits]

@slovakmath Me too!!!

[SquidLord]

One simple fact. Too often lost.

[Bezshai]

I would give anything to go back to 1995 and introduce myself to Richard Feynman and Neil deGrasse Tyson. I never had role models back then, but after learning about and listening to those two, I have finally found some.

[fatmeteor]

@Bezshai 1985 might have been more to your liking.

[ktxed]

@Bezshai The dead can't talk ^_^

[mrzack888]

i bet he got so much nerdy pussy while teaching.

[lytrigian]

@mrzack888 I believe he's definitely on record as having sought pussy elsewhere than from among his students, and not necessarily nerdy types either.

[brucestiles]

The Scientific Method described in 1:08.

[beenn15]

@brucestiles and the key to that method is:

if it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.

go back to the drawing board.

[WoodstockHippie1969]

FeynmanChaser Rocks !!!

[Itsnattatooma]

Quine-Duhem thesis...

[nlytend1]

ooh the irony...Theists, I hope you're listening

[prgmmer]

@nlytend1 ironically, this video is about science. It actually has nothing to do with theists. Theism is about faith. Theists can also conduct science, just not on the things that are based on faith.

[kantastisk]

Tom Hanks would make a good young Feynman if they ever did the movie. Hell, I'd watch it!

[TheImmigrantsong]

Feynman is something like a super hero for grown people :D

[ananiasacts]

@TheImmigrantsong, Yeah. He did have a superpower too: a personal integrity so elegantly simple and beautiful that it will continue to inspire greatness in others forever.

[geodesicks]

@kantastisk : The large forehead, right?!

[kantastisk]

@geodesicks Well yea, he looks like him, but there's something about his personality too. That sort of geeky, charming and very sympathetic vibe.

[RustyCyler]

I love this video !

Thanks so much for all of the Feynman uploads.

[zenbudhism]

they could be laughing at the dichotomy between society's vision of the formal scientist and the fact that to discover something new one way is to guess some new idea

[tonybeir]

people watching this must realize that back then in the sixties mannerisms like his and intonation were already comical because they were out of the normal rigid way of teaching and presenting the material.

If you watch very old comedians from the 50s-60s they're jokes fall flat on our ears but back then they were funny because of the way they tell them.

[Solidarity22]

@tonybeir

So are you implying that every professor today could have been comedians in the 50s-60s?

What you mean there were out of the normal rigid way of teaching? Did this professor spearhead the style of teaching that we experience/practice today? I believe not!

[tonybeir]

yea you're right most professors today teach as boring as ever. a few learned from feynman. Then again I don't htink you can learn to be a great educator its like a talent.

[dhawkins1234]

yeah I really don't get why they're laughing... he was telling them something extremely profound, and they thought he was making a joke

[pikiwiki]

Maybe there's something truer than you know in what you just said.

[dhawkins1234]

Errmm... what are you trying to say?

[MOBrienACRTC]

They were laughing in appreciation of his choice of expression. People laugh for many reasons other than jokes.

[ivolol]

Exactly

[dhawkins1234]

As I said to gokartmozart, there's no doubt that Feynman included humor in his lectures, but the audience laughed not just at his mannerisms and wit, but at his serious and profound statements. Much like someone who laughs before they've heard the punchline of the joke, they simply didn't get it.

[ivolol]

They're laughing because it's different to how other things are in our human world... If a piece of art is beautiful, it's almost never wrong. However there have been many beautiful scientific theories that have been proven wrong... for instance Newton's and Einstein's theories of gravity both are very beautiful ideas but slightly wrong (in terms of observations) and therefore completely wrong as theories. They're very good approximations though :D

[arabiannoons]

are the audience there a bunch of nuts?there's nothing funny about what he's saying.

[gokartmozart]

RF had the timing of a humorist. Listen to Lenny Bruce and you will see the similarities in tone, cadence and timing. The audience no doubt was keyed into the filming (both RF and themselves being filmed). My observation is that RF had no problem with the lighthearted atmosphere and the youthful joviality of the students. He loved the profoundly simple and the simply profound, and found delight in educating us.

[zapopaul]

@gokartmozart Yes he did. Just listen to "Los Alamos from below" that should be up there with the likes of Seinfeld. Also it's remarcable how he's managed to teach me in 1 minute what I didn't learn in 15 years of public education.