Richard Feynman Interview #1

@ters342 1981

i wish i was half as skilled as feynman

One of the greatest of all time. Fortunately we got him on video. Its not the same with Newton, Maxwell, Faraday...
But I disagree a little. In many cases words do tell you something about the nature of things.For instance if that bird is called "бурeвecтник" in Russian (something like stormteller) you know about the habit of those birds of living in cold waters prone to make storms. There are many examples like that.

hermenutics best methodology around.

I love how his father taught him, with no pressure, making the distinction between having a name for something (like all the names for a type of bird which told him nothing about the bird) and actually knowing and understanding something about it.

Wonderful video.

Tangential, but true.
Remember that Feynman was actually a patron of scienceand math, so within society it is kind of important to have common facts.

Sounds fascistic!

What? Sounds a bit pretentious to me, to be blunt.