Book: Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!
One other thing I was not able to achieve them - questions. In the end, one student explained to me: "If I ask You a question during a lecture, then everyone will say: "Why are you wasting our time in the classroom? We try to learn something. And you're stopping him by asking a question". It was a kind of one-upmanship, as nobody knew what was happening, and was just pretending to understand. They pretended that they are clear. And if someone asked the question, recognizing thereby that it is not all clear, he looked down and said that it takes time.
I explained how it is useful to work together, to discuss all the problems, all to the end to find out, but they didn't do it, because asking a question, they dropped their dignity. Poor man! Reasonable people, and how much work they spent, but learned this ridiculous, warped view of things and did their "education" is meaningless, utterly meaningless.
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MegaMozg 24-05-2020 / 16:33
I don't think I could live without teaching. The reason is that I just need something to do and when I have run out of ideas or I don't get any results, I, as a teacher, all I can say to myself: "At least, I marvel a normal life; at least, do something, make some contribution" - a purely psychological reason.
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MegaMozg 31-08-2017 / 15:27
This conference was full of stupid - pompous fools - and pompous fools force me just to climb the wall. In the ordinary fools, there is nothing wrong; you can talk with them and try to help. But pompous fools - fools who hide their stupidity and try to show everyone how smart they are and the wonderful with the help of such sell - I JUST can'T STAND! Ordinary fool - do not cheat; an honest fool is not bad. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
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MegaMozg 15-08-2017 / 19:09
And von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world in which we live. As a result of Council von Neumann I've developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility. This made me a happy man ever since.
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MegaMozg 15-08-2017 / 19:06
When you're young, then too much makes you worry: what will mom say if you go there. You're worried, trying to make a decision, but then there is something else. Much easier just to solve it. Never doubt - nothing can change your mind. One day, when I went to MIT, I did it. I'm tired of having to choose dessert at the restaurant and so I decided that I would always take chocolate ice cream, and never worried about it - this problem was solved once and for all.
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MegaMozg 15-08-2017 / 19:03
For example, I was somewhat surprised by the words of my friend, who dealt with cosmology and astronomy. He was going to speak on the radio and thought about how to explain what is the practical value of his work. I said it simply does not exist. "Yeah, but then we do not receive financial support for further research," he said. I think it's unfair. If you play as a scientist, you have to explain to people what you are doing. But if they decide not to Fund your research, well, that is their right.
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MegaMozg 16-01-2017 / 17:09
... I understand why actually need art, at least to some extent. It brings to someone, individual, pleasure. You can create something that someone else will like it so much that this person is depressed or happy because of this damn thing you've created! <...> I understood that to sell a drawing is not to make money, and make sure that it will be in the house of the person he is really like; the person will be bad if this figure he will not.
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MegaMozg 16-01-2017 / 17:09
So right away I found out something about biology: it is very easy to find a question that would be very interesting and no one would know the answer. In physics had to go a little deeper before you could find an interesting question, which people do not know.
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MegaMozg 16-01-2017 / 17:09
It's not the property that we have, and the ability to create this property.
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MegaMozg 10-01-2017 / 10:33
Of course, you only live once, make all the mistakes that needs to be done, learn what not to do, and this is the best, what we can learn.
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MegaMozg 10-01-2017 / 10:32
The main principle - not to fool yourself. And it is the easiest to fool. Here we have to be very careful.
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MegaMozg 10-01-2017 / 10:32
- How do You value life?
- Sixty-four.
- Why did You say ' sixty-four?
- How are You supposed to measure the value of life?
- No! I mean, why do You say "sixty-four" and not "seventy three", for example?
If I said "seventy-three". You would have asked me the same question!
Quote Explanation: an excerpt from the interview of R. Feynman with a psychologist
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MegaMozg 09-01-2017 / 12:12
To add to your life one second, you will have to fly around the earth 400 million times, but all of these aircraft Breakfast will shorten your life much greater.
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MegaMozg 08-01-2017 / 20:24
You keep telling yourself, "I can do it, but I will not" but is nothing more than another way of saying that you can't.
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MegaMozg 08-01-2017 / 20:24
I don't know what happens to people: they learn not by understanding. They learn by some other way-by rote or otherwise. Their knowledge is so fragile!
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MegaMozg 08-01-2017 / 20:24
