Richard Feynman - The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out

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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out was filmed in 1981 and will delight and inspire anyone who would like to share something of the joys of scientific discovery. Feynman is a master storyteller, and his tales -- about childhood, Los Alamos, or how he won a Nobel Prize -- are a vivid and entertaining insight into the mind of a great scientist at work and play.

In this candid interview Feynman touches on a wide array of topics from the beauty of nature to particle physics. He explains things that are hard to grasp in layman's terms much like Carl Sagan did in the cosmos series. His explanation of the scientific method covers what we know, why we know it and most importantly, what we don't know and the pleasure of figuring it out.

Professor Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Prize for Chemistry said "The 1981 Feynman Horizon is the best science program I have ever seen. This is not just my opinion -- it is also the opinion of many of the best scientists that I know who have seen the program... It should be mandatory viewing for all students whether they be science or arts students."

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[TheScienceFoundation]

@cnestudy1 In my experience they usually are.

[TheScienceFoundation]

@cnestudy1 That understanding reality the way it is is much more interesting than persisting in fantasy and delusion.

[aigg]

Anyone else stuck with a feeling of being totally inadequate? Time to lower the bar just a tad...sigh. But what an interesting listen!

[geq3102]

Pretty cool dude :-)

[njroode]

I love hearing Feynman speak via youtube. Never knew he existed, or who he is, what he did. How great it is to see someone fearless of doubt and uncertainty, suspicious of uniforms. Feynman died in 1988, 12 years after I was born. This 47 minute clip inspires me to go and buy Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman.

[Squirlol]

@JhericFury Unusual for average physicists, but somehow almost ubiquitous among the really great ones.

[WickeDFate4]

@JhericFury Equally unusual for all of us.

[mc18601]

The new era of science that is easily accessed and shared is upon us, we can now see the genius up close if only we could have seen Galileo, Plato Newton Einstein and many of the others who were ahead of their time in this medium, its a privilege to see Mr feynman on this human level unrehearsed not just a series of paragraphs on a page as interesting as they are. If human existence continues many millennia what a privilege it will be for those looking back to see the person Richard feynman

[JhericFury]

What an inspiration, so great with words. Unusual for a physicist.

[nubl37]

lost in the mysterious universe without purpose

[dissol]

@noklarok It was an horrific act of inhumanity (and one that clearly troubled Feynman). But it was not the scientists who decided to use the technology, it was the politicians. The science of nuclear physics has also given us huge advances in medicine, which have also saved countless lives. No one can say if the nuking of Japan actually saved lives. If the war had dragged on, until the occupation of Japan, then how many would have died on both sides taking those islands?

[noklarok]

@dissol Obviously he cannot deny involvement ,, that would be silly. Indeed I might not even have been born if bombs had not nuked Japan. But Governments are often getting scientists to do shady things in the name of righteousness and 'freedom.' USA nuking Japan ensured USA as the new world number one power. Nuking Japan also helped USA gain control of Japan as a military base next to China. It did shut up those pesky Japs but it was still a horrific act of inhumanity. rest in pieces.