Richard Feynman: Disrepect for Authority

"What Do You Care What Other People Think?"

by Richard Phillips Feynman

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http://www.sciencemag.org/multimedia/

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;314/5802/1113?maxtoshow=&H...

Narrator: Raymond Todd

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• feynman
• science
• physics
• nobel
• religion

[meanmrmustard89]

Why not have his real voice?

[ndjarnag]

@meanmrmustard89 This clip was taken from an audio book. I was struck by this section and I decided to post it. Feynman recounts this story in personal interviews which are also on youtube.

[TheStigma]

@ndjarnag what book is this? I think I would endjoy an audiobook of Feynman's introspections - if that is indeed what the book is about. I guess it is Feynman talking about his own father?

[ndjarnag]

@TheStigma The book is "What Do You Care What Other People Think?". The best site for audio books is "audible.com" in my opinion.

[FourthDimensionAnim]

How did an excerpt from one of Feynman's books become a heated debate about the Quran.. I swear, some people just WANT to argue.

Don't feed the trolls!

[strokesfan1107]

@FourthDimensionAnim agreed. since when did youtube become the "chip-on-shoulder club"?

[busplunger]

@meanmrmustard89 he lived the life,does he have to read it to you ,too?

[CullTheLivingFlower]

There is a clip of Feynman telling this story in his own voice. I can't remember exactly what it's called, but I'm sure I've seen it on youtube. Do some searching and you should find it.

[ActionJacksonBMX]

@85Damix goes for police too

[rwtj01]

i prefer the original clip with his own voice.

[Kenzofeis]

The word 'anti' not only means "opposed" it also means "vicar" or "in place of" - which combined means "someone taking someone's place, not with good intentions toward the original" i.e. an impostor.

[ReX342]

@jefitz "Catholics REVERE the office of [their] pope which [according to one doctrine] exists to guard THE deposit of spiritual truth". THAT is why his father hated [the concept of] the [catholic] pope. Subtleties can be found ANYWHERE in nature, why bother with those of organized religion that claim truth based on belief rather than reason? Sure, you can argue some theologians disagree. I'd rather have the laws of physics discovered than another thousand years of "Is god bound by reason?".

[jefitz]

"He hated him [the Pope] anyway.." Feynman's father obviously had a deep prejudice against Catholicism which was not uncommon at the time. He inspired love of physics in his son but pity he didn't encourage an understanding of the subtleties of religion. Catholic teaching is that the Pope is only a man. Catholics revere the office of Pope which exists to guard the deposit of spiritual truth an important component of our culture. The Popes hat is irrelevant.