Physicist Richard Feynman explains the scientific and unscientific methods of understanding nature.
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@PRR54064 жыл бұрын
"We can never be right, we can only prove we're wrong." Such clarity and humility is what Feynman so iconic!
@johncampbell39404 жыл бұрын
Are we right that the earth is not flat? I think so.
@johncampbell39404 жыл бұрын
@UCm6OZvR_QveiGtwos-qpPZg I think you might be mistaken here. Popper was not a logical positivist, in fact from towardsdatascience.com/logical-positivism-and-the-scientific-method-in-genetic-algorithmics-aaf0ed9d6f22 we get: The non-universality of empirical observation was a particularly vexing problem for logical positivism. Given the verificationist foundations of this movement, only empirical observations made at a particular point in time and space were admissible as protocol sentences. Generalization to other points in time and space was not allowed. This made it hard to prove much of value. Proponents of logical positivism tied themselves in knots trying to address this and other critiques. By the mid twentieth century, the logical positivist movement had largely crumbled and the philosophy of science propounded by Karl Popper had gained traction. so K.P. (among others) put the boots to log. pos.
@felivanrrell5284 жыл бұрын
that's K. Popper theory
@fallingintofilm4 жыл бұрын
John Campbell - You’ve phrased it differently. The way to phrase that as a scientific guess is “The Earth is Flat because xyz” and then they go test that theory and it gets proven false. We can never prove the earth is round with 100% certainty. It’s just that theory has never been disproved.
@johncampbell39404 жыл бұрын
Empirical claims cannot be proven with 100% accuracy; so what? That sort of proof has no meaning outside of mathematics, but this kind of objection is close to irrelevant; after all disproving a theory amounts to an empirical claim, so disproving is also not possible "with 100% certainty". Such concerns are a distraction. In science, proof and disproof have the same epistemological standing. Feynman was a great scientist; he was not, however, a great philosopher of science. Over and out.
@D3sertst0rm11 жыл бұрын
"If it disagrees with experiment - it's WRONG! - That's all there is to it!" Many people still need to put this in their heads.
@DJVARAO4 жыл бұрын
Oh no, because that will ruin their delusional state of mind.
@kirkkaleta3264 жыл бұрын
DesertstormPT , sometimes you have to go back to the most fundamental sentence to make sense
@aaronbarlow43764 жыл бұрын
Global warming alarmists for sure.
@Raydensheraj4 жыл бұрын
Then we can agree that religions are man made.
@JorisVDC4 жыл бұрын
Like mister Feynman, just to name one theory: that matter exists outside of our observation. Not one experiment has been able to prove this, so this implies that this theory isn't true.
@genestone49518 жыл бұрын
This is why KZfaq is great.
@MumblingMickey8 жыл бұрын
+Gene Livingston KZfaq is also an example of why rubbish only wins when it has no counterpart... you can look up 'Ancient Aliens' and in the same list get A real astrophysicist telling you WHY there were no ancient aliens... Bullshit has nowhere to hide when authority enters the party. I suppose you could apply that to the internet... Its an iterative process... this is a new advent for humanity... but like the printing press it will utterly destroy nonsense over time.
@NewInfinityRecursion5 жыл бұрын
Yes and No :) Maybe science will not win but propaganda, ...
@agarprince80235 жыл бұрын
The fuc* do you say to me you little sh*t?
@hayk30005 жыл бұрын
@@NewInfinityRecursion with some folks it unfortunately will
@kameronbriggs2355 жыл бұрын
Somebody spread this to all the people who believe in manmade Co2 driving climate.
@alephnull40445 жыл бұрын
Never knew a guy could be an undisputed genius, very good looking, incredibly charismatic and good at speaking all at the same time.
@jonassteinberg37795 жыл бұрын
He was surely rare...
@emperornortoni28715 жыл бұрын
With a grin like the Cheshire Cat.
@StephenDoty845 жыл бұрын
He even hung out in strip joints to talk to the dancers. (I wonder if they discussed friction. )
@dajanacoric12415 жыл бұрын
I saw you at chess videos aleph
@alephnull40445 жыл бұрын
@@dajanacoric1241 yeah I'm on a lot of videos
@maximus29782 жыл бұрын
9 minutes of sheer brilliance. I am a scientist and whenever I feel I need some recharging, I watch Feynman videos, and my inner scientist again lights up. With new energy, with new hope.
@smithereensloccomotives678 Жыл бұрын
What field sir
@POISON_616 Жыл бұрын
same
@costanzafaust Жыл бұрын
The first minute is so blindingly brilliant -- if it disagrees with the experiment it's WRONG! -- followed by all these other flashes of brilliance to illuminate that point ... the man's words are as light from a star.
@deancyrus1 Жыл бұрын
Awesome 👍
@philiprowney Жыл бұрын
I hear you brother. I am _not_ a scientist, just a coder ;-) Richard got a smell of THE truth and it galvanised his effort. I love almost everything about him, as you would a close friend. Such a pity he is NOT the watchword on truth now.... Peace brother _/|\_
@DuncanSmith9 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best explanations of the scientific method.
@pancakebb63845 жыл бұрын
why
@The76Malibu5 жыл бұрын
@@pancakebb6384 Well Feynman was an incredible teacher. It is concise and focuses on getting the listener to 'get the gist' of the topic. So that they actually take away a lesson from the words he said. He makes jokes, and gives examples to keep the attention of the listener. So if you had to choose one explanation of many, this is the best kind.
@moltimondi4 жыл бұрын
It is The best one
@tjblues014 жыл бұрын
@@pancakebb6384 Do you know better one?
@ladymercy52754 жыл бұрын
He misses a part, in that partially wrong and partially correct theories have mathematically significant predictive power, which is necessary to compute any proposition with complexity exceeding a syllogism, which is all of them except for algorithms which only require raw memorization with no critical thinking; but considering his audience, I certainly understand why he chose to sidestep the process of devising algorithmic hypotheses via inductive reasoning, in favor of the simpler _"it only takes a single example to prove you wrong."_ That's sufficient for at most a _class_ on physics; gating your experimentation on whether not pure mathematicians have finished their equations for you to hypothesize on is not necessarily, at all. Gathering data requires no consciousness effort of any kind, merely a curiosity to do so. Eventually the algorithms form theirselves, e.g. your consciousness in this very moment of your own time. In before someone tries to dispute this point without resorting to directionless data aggregation--been never there, done never that.
@saminchowdhury79954 жыл бұрын
Other teachers: first step of scientific method is the hypothesis. Feynman: first step we just guess it
@mctrjalloh60824 жыл бұрын
that's the same thing
@saminchowdhury79954 жыл бұрын
@@mctrjalloh6082 yes I know my point is he simplifies it that's what makes him a great master.
@mctrjalloh60824 жыл бұрын
@@saminchowdhury7995 oh okay yes I get you 👌
@laromai22454 жыл бұрын
"guess" doesn't sound scientific. So it doesn't fool anyone.
@mctrjalloh60824 жыл бұрын
@@laromai2245 Science is actually about guessing and trying to verify those guesses
@nidurnevets10 жыл бұрын
My uncle, Abe Bader, was Feynman's high school physics teacher. I remember my uncle describing to my father a brilliant student, who could learn more physics in a weekend than he could learn in a summer. I was only a kid when I heard this, so I didn't catch any name. But the idea of someone that brilliant stayed with me, though I didn't know that my uncle meant Feynman until they both had died, decades later.. I became intrigued with Feynman from programs like NOVA
@nathanschubert30489 жыл бұрын
sounds interesting.
@nidurnevets9 жыл бұрын
After Feynman died I got hold the book which is called, I think, "Surely you must be Joking Feynman". In it, Feynman describes what I remembered hearing my uncle tell my father.. He said he lent this brilliant student some graduate level physics books to study, as he was obviously way ahead of the class. Feynman tells the story from his point of view in his book. It's interesting that this particular memory of my uncle talking about a brilliant student stayed with me for so many years.
@timclaason9 жыл бұрын
That's really cool. I wish I had family stories like that!
@nidurnevets9 жыл бұрын
Thanks. There is more to the story--an unfortunate part. I think it proves that truth is stranger than fiction. If you look up Abram Bader on the Internet, you can usually find a story about my uncle and high school age Feynman, in which my uncle is explaining a physics concept to him. But, if you look up Abe Bader's son Seth Bader, you get news stories about a murder trial. It came as a shock to me when, in 2006, I looked up Seth in the course of trying to write a family history, and this trial came up. My cousin Seth is in prison for life! There is a book about the case called Legally Dead. I don't remember the names of the authors. There was also an episode of a series called Deadly Sins, in which my cousin's case was featured. Abe Bader was married to my father's sister, Yvette. The rest of us are very law-abiding. My father was a violinist in the NY Philharmonic from 1946 to 1979.
@Sathishkumar-pm8tu5 жыл бұрын
I am extremely delighted to hear from Feynman's favorite teacher Bader's relative. Feynman has mentioned Bader at many places in his lectures. Your comment here helped me really get a sense of how Feynman would have been when studying. Being a big fan of Feynman for so many years now, these comments thoroughly delighted me. Thanks a lot!
@MrPauldcarr9 жыл бұрын
Before Sagan, before Tyson, before Brian Greene, or Michio Kaku, there was a great science communicator who was also a great scientist, and his name was Richard Feynman. Not everyone is going to like his streamlined philosophy of science, but this is how it should work, and i think most practicing scientists would agree.
@MatthewBerginGarage8 жыл бұрын
+Paul Carr I would have loved to have him as my teacher.
@missdee49278 жыл бұрын
Out of all of them I would have wanted Feynman as my teacher.
@TheRealSamPreece8 жыл бұрын
kaku sucks ballz
@nicmart6 жыл бұрын
But they don’t have to agree with him for Feynman to be right. Science is not consensus.
@rsrt69105 жыл бұрын
@@missdee4927 So, apparently, did every physics student at Cornell, and the University of Wisconsin, and every college in the US and probably in the world. (His retirement party, as I understand it, was epic and not a dry eye in the building.)
@ShadowBanMeIHack11 жыл бұрын
Feynman videos should be shown in science classes to kids. Such an interesting and enjoyable speaker!
@kreek22 Жыл бұрын
The science teachers couldn't survive the shade he throws.
@steveverhey7533 Жыл бұрын
They are -- you can tell from the grammarly ads.
@quasimoto85379 жыл бұрын
How can ANYONE click the dislike button on this video?! Richard Feynman is one of the most intellectually honest scientists who ever lived, having no agenda except what is true (or what appears true until it is proven false, if ever). It's a shame that this voice was taken from us. Some people should live forever.
@ezio16129 жыл бұрын
***** They believe in flying saucers
@PassiveSmoking9 жыл бұрын
ezio1612 Or God.
@arthurfincham64808 жыл бұрын
+Quasi Moto The world is getting dumber on average (I might be part of that)
@LarsPallesen8 жыл бұрын
+Quasi Moto 26 homeopaths and anti-vaxxers didn't like it ;-)
@andrewp64558 жыл бұрын
+Quasi Moto He should have tried cryonics. I wold love to see him in the future. (I am an Alcor member)
@ramaanoramokgopa91005 жыл бұрын
It should be a human right to have access to this understanding
@connorcriss5 жыл бұрын
Step at a Time Yeah, and it should be a human right
@avadakedavra805 жыл бұрын
it should be a human responsibility.... access is easy (finally!)
@dannybowen6274 жыл бұрын
@@connorcriss it is... but maybe you are misunderstanding rights. Rights are not handed to you, you have the right to get them.
@isaacpreven36934 жыл бұрын
Not all people are brought up with the same rights. Insular fundamentalist communities must resent this stuff. I think Ramaano’s comment is worth repeating.
@isaacpreven36934 жыл бұрын
nuff sed all good :)
@Brilozzato8 жыл бұрын
This is exactly what the average person should understand, explained exactly in the way the average person could understand. Why it is not subtitled in tens of languages and shared over and over in the Net?
@communist-hippie8 жыл бұрын
you my boy. have mission :). do it. translate and upload
@paullangford81796 жыл бұрын
Tens of subtitles would leave nothing for the picture!
@1996Pinocchio6 жыл бұрын
I would love to find people who don't only care about the views but also that it is accessable long-terms which means that they enable viewers to add subtitles. It's the best thing they could do while ordering them so that you don't find these videos one by one in a yt-algorithm-determinded way.
@NomadUrpagi5 жыл бұрын
Because idiot women and dumb people care more about looking good, rich and instagram more than they care for science so that we could evolve forward
@wiggles79765 жыл бұрын
@@NomadUrpagi By what MEASURE are you quantifying "idiot" and "dumb"? Looks like perhaps you didn't get it either.
@TheMilwaukeeProtocol10 жыл бұрын
"I read 'em [the letters] to make sure that I haven't already thought of that." In my opinion, that type of attitude is what made him a good scientist.
@rohitsinha91174 жыл бұрын
"problem is not what might be wrong but what might be substituted precisely in place of it." these words by feynman during this lecture just took my breath away.what an amazing super talented intellectually genius. hats off!!
@l.sushantasingha5 ай бұрын
8:23
@Twinsfan12992 жыл бұрын
I teach research methods in psychology, and this is exactly how the scientific method should be taught. I even use the example of Newton and Einstein to illustrate it (not nearly as well as Feynman does, but I try), and his criticism of many psychology theories are spot on! That doesn't mean psychology is not a science or can't be studied rigorously, just that a lot of it is useless because it doesn't help actually predict anything, especially in the day's of Freud).
@JD-od6jh Жыл бұрын
And that's exactly why I love Feynman so much. I have 0 knowledge about physics (never had the subject). But his idea of how to conceptualize theories and thoughts is intreguetly linked with philosophy and how he percieves the world. You could watch his lectures and (ofcourse learn about physics) but more importantly, learn to critically think for yourself. A true teacher, not just for the subject but for life itself. What a great man he was.
@ElvishJumpSuit9 жыл бұрын
Some of my greatest scientific pillars came from this man. His Lectures on Physics books were on the reading list at uni. Thanks for all the memories Richard. You are greatly missed.
@communist-hippie8 жыл бұрын
what i like with. feynman. is hes so good at explaining things thats complicated, to be easily understood.
@trololollolololololl7 жыл бұрын
year 2000 thats a normal thing for good physcian
@aejazahmed77685 жыл бұрын
@@trololollolololololl you mean physicist?
@Campbellteaching5 жыл бұрын
Which year was this recorded? It's superb of course.
@rvmm24 жыл бұрын
Hello John, I believe this was either in 1963 or 1964, it was definitely in the early-to-mid sixties :) Sorry I couldn't be more precise! Thank you by the way for all you have done for the British public and the wider world during this pandemic. Really appreciate your expertise and dedication :) saty safe
@halwyman3 жыл бұрын
He was at Cornell from 1944 to 1949, when he took a year of sabbatical before joining the faculty at California Institute of Technology.
@spyone48283 жыл бұрын
My inexpert opinion is Feynman looks too young for this to be the 1960s. And the audience looks very 1950s to me. Feynman was born in 1918, so he would have been 30 in 1948, 40 in 1958, or 50 in 1968. I guess decide which of those he looks closer to to you. ;)
@danduvall85833 жыл бұрын
I would guess 1960.
@DerKiesch3 жыл бұрын
In another video covering the first segment of this it was tagged as happening 1964
@walucanguro9 жыл бұрын
i'll never get tired of this, best explanation of scientific thinking i've encountered
@physicsgobrr93335 жыл бұрын
Oh I like him so much. I just finished my 4 year physics undergrad, and he is the reason why I didn't quit.
@gustavoespinoza79404 жыл бұрын
The combination lock example he tells at the end is way more significant when you know that at one point when Feynman was doing research for the US government he would continuously guess the combination to other scientists safes. He learned how to essentially guess any safes combination within the timespan of a few minutes just to mess around with his peers
@hillbillbob91314 жыл бұрын
😀😂
@spyone48283 жыл бұрын
In "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" there is a wonderful bit of Feynman talking about how the actual safecracking he did was mostly smoke and mirrors: you figured out what two of the three digits of the combination were from looking at the door when it was open, and you wrote that down somewhere. Then you would "get your tools" and retrieve the part you wrote down, try the 100 possible combinations, and then read a magazine for a while because you don't want it to look too easy.
@farroohfattoyev78774 жыл бұрын
The best stand-up comedian for intelligent minds!
@madhuridutta67527 жыл бұрын
How wonderful he was! How I wish I heard him speak, sitting in a classroom!
@TWWIW2 жыл бұрын
I first heard of Feynman back in middle school. He shook my intellectual world then, and still rocks my world now, seeing I’m at university now.
@johnchessant30122 жыл бұрын
guess: Feynman's lectures are always enjoyable and clear. experiment: I have watched this video and I found it enjoyable and clear. however, this is not enough to establish our hypothesis as a theory. more experimentation is needed. I shall now watch more of Feynman's lectures and see if it holds true.
@thomasjensen34822 жыл бұрын
Just remember that you can only prove that your guess is wrong. No matter how many brilliant videos you watch, you'll never know if the next one you watch is extremely boring.
@AThagoras2 жыл бұрын
My favourite physicist of all time. I wish we had a lot more scientists like that!
@paysonfox882 жыл бұрын
There are two other professors from that generation that I know were like that in style and in knowledge. The first was a professional economist by the name of Milton Friedman. The second was a professor of History and kinesiology at the University of Texas during the 1970s through the 1990s. His name was Dr Terry Todd.
@tsumugikotobuki0131 Жыл бұрын
There are plenty of great scientists around today, they just don't get media coverage and generally don't want it. Also, they tend to focus on very specific problems, so while Newton and Euler could discover laws in various fields, today's scientists will focus on specific problems within specific fields, perhaps for their entire life.
@AThagoras Жыл бұрын
@@tsumugikotobuki0131 I didn't mean to imply that there aren't many great scientists anymore. Science seems to be making so many discoveries every week that I can't keep up with them anymore. Feynman had a unique talent in being able to break complex ideas down to make them understandable. Not only was he a brilliant scientist, but he was also a great communicator and educator. I particularly liked his humility and sense of humour. I would like to see more scientists willing to make the effort to promote science and make it understandable to a wider range of people.
@Iksbrown11 жыл бұрын
That safe-cracking analogy is brilliant.
@user-qm6lq6fh6g6 ай бұрын
He used to go around Los Alamos unlocking doors and drawers and safes and shit. He was smooth
@CazBarry8 жыл бұрын
I love the way the audience warm to him and his presentation. A great dude!
@sebthelobster10 жыл бұрын
Tom hanks should play him
@paulj666210 жыл бұрын
see if you can find "The investigation into the challenger disaster" not Tom but a great performance by William Hurt.
@pdoylemi10 жыл бұрын
Paul J That was a great flick.
@russellmakar57910 жыл бұрын
Nobody can play Mr.Feynman, for starters, nobody is even close to being worthy of that honor. Hollywood people are just that , Hollywood people, just actor's, playing a part, Mr. Feynman is the real deal.Actors are phony baloney, they have no idea of reality.
@38Fanda5 жыл бұрын
@@russellmakar579 hard to make a movie about feynman without actors, when he's dead
@michaelmaniscalco21915 жыл бұрын
no. no one should play him.
@MisterF_19849 жыл бұрын
That is some really neat chalk board writing.
@projectjt31494 жыл бұрын
Mister F if only they taught more cursive. but RIP, we’re in the days of typing, on a touchscreen no less. Even mechanical keyboards is becoming old, and DEFINITELY not Gen-X. (If there are any Gen-Xs out there that does type with a Cherry MX keyboard, I applaud. Just know that you’re a minority.)
@jacob96734 жыл бұрын
//PROJECT JT314 Bruh. Mechanical keyboards and popular among young people, especially for gaming. What are you on?
@edukid19843 жыл бұрын
@@projectjt3149 I would not be surprised if handwriting comes back with a vengeance once touchscreen pens become as commonplace as ballpoint pens and work as smoothly and intuitively, with AI-driven handwriting recognition reaching near 100% accuracy. There's something deeply humanistic about writing something out through old-fashion manipulation of pen that typing will not be able to replicate.
As opposed to the scientific method in contemporary western academia: 1. Predetermine the politically/economically desired results. 2. Ignore/suppress/ridicule contradicting data (i.e. if the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts). 3. Increase wealth and power of the oligarchy, repeat process until civilization collapses.
@timclaason9 жыл бұрын
I think Feynman was at his best here. As he got older, I don't think he lost a step or got less brilliant, but I think he lost some intensity. I appreciate his take on the scientific method, and the tentativeness with which we should approach discerning between fact and fantasy
@buetaspirant2 жыл бұрын
How are you? It has been a long time since you have commented in this video. I just wanted you to retrospect .🤗
@hillaryclinton24153 жыл бұрын
You can literally hear the thought processes that inexorably led him to being able to describe quantum electrodynamics. Bravo Mr. Feynman.
@askformoreinfowhichyouwont75104 жыл бұрын
"We can never be right, but we can be sure we're wrong" god.. I love this guy. Hitting nails on the head...
@koosnaamloos42915 жыл бұрын
But have they tried turning the theories off and on again?
@grendelum5 жыл бұрын
Still getting the _”driver not found”_ error...
@silverhawk25034 жыл бұрын
Koos Naamloos YOU! Make NO sense.
@themitchellbrothers4 жыл бұрын
Hold down the T and the Y and ignore all the other letters for 20 seconds
@peace-kk6yw3 жыл бұрын
I love the frequency of old recordings.🔥
@geraldqueener7861 Жыл бұрын
He was so brilliant and used comic anecdotes to make complex ideas accessable to the common person...he was a boon to all humanity 😊
@russellmakar57910 жыл бұрын
If only we had more people like this teaching nowadays we would be in a lot better condition than we are at the present time.I love this man.He's right up there with Albert Einstein.
@morningstomper12310 жыл бұрын
Have you discovered Walter Lewin yet? He is retired now, but personally I think he was an even better teacher than Feynman was
@russellmakar57910 жыл бұрын
Yes I have, very good. I would also suggest Leonard Susskind's lectures, he's brilliant.
@gerjaison10 жыл бұрын
People these day spent too much time on Evolution vs Creationism.
@russellmakar57910 жыл бұрын
Gerjaison Exactly, and tn this day and age religions are an to insult our intelligence, I try discussing it with some of my religious friends and as the saying goes, never attempt to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and just annoys the pig, I myself miss Mr. Christopher Hitchens deeply.
@chufeng62235 жыл бұрын
@@gerjaison why is such a big problem to have both? Evolution does not disproove God, neigher does God disproove evolution.
@nagualdesign Жыл бұрын
Such clarity of mind. I rewatch Feynman whenever he appears in my KZfaq suggestions just to help centre myself.
@deancyrus1 Жыл бұрын
My goodness, it's no wonder he is held in such high regard. He's fantastic.
@nobueno25515 жыл бұрын
Ten minutes of raw, unfiltered common sense. Should be mandatory viewing for every science student at the start of each new year.
@tarmairon4313 жыл бұрын
This is far beyond common sense. It took humans thousands of years to come up with the scientific method.
@shawnmclean77072 жыл бұрын
We need everyone who goes “follow the science” to watch this.
@roughtakes72712 жыл бұрын
Every human that can listen and understand would arguably add to the strength of your sentence ;-)
@DUIofPhysics8 жыл бұрын
This really should be played in all classrooms in relation to STEM.
@cristinalacoste20623 жыл бұрын
What lucky men and women they were to be able to enjoy this man's lecture. I wonder how many were inspired to pursue the sciences as a result of his unique and compelling method of teaching?
@danielsherwood34603 жыл бұрын
He's so unbelievably humble. I guess that stems from his confidence.
@ColonelFredPuntridge2 жыл бұрын
Humble? Feynman? WRONG. The theory that Feynman was a humble man sounds nice, but it didn't agree with experiment, observation, or experience. So it's WRONG. I don't care how beautiful the theory may be, or how smart you are, or what your name is; the theory doesn't agree with experiment, observation, or experience, so it's WRONG, and that's all there is to it.
@Christopher-mi6qe4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating to see someone so brilliant and articulate. I read his book 30+ years ago and still one of the best.
@AutoCollegeAalborgGF Жыл бұрын
What a truly inspired lecturer - gifted in so many ways showing how one person can actually influence a whole world.
@ForTheOmnissiah Жыл бұрын
This guy makes serious science entertaining and extremely educational. One of the best teachers out there, ever.
@faylouise816910 жыл бұрын
totally ed norton! i love listening to him, his thought process and candidness of thought and point of view, he says what he sees, and thinks out loud
@ColonelFredPuntridge2 жыл бұрын
He reminds me more of the actor James Gregory - who played the corrupt anti-communist Senator in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.
@luketyler32293 жыл бұрын
6:35 "Ow - So you're dealing with phycological matters and things can not be defines so precisely?" "yes" "But then you can not claim to know anything about it" Nailed it : D
@housellama3 жыл бұрын
As a psychologist who is also a big fan of Feynman, he's not entirely wrong. People are nowhere near as precise as physics. A bit of irony, however, is that both physics and psychology are both ruled by statistics. We can't say exactly what any given person will do, but with enough information we can give a decent prediction within a certain margin of error.
@joshbutts31433 жыл бұрын
@@housellama i dont think physics is ruled by statistics though
@Jackissimus2 жыл бұрын
@@joshbutts3143 Once you get to the quantum mechanical realm, it totally is. We have no idea what a single particle is gonna do, we can just do statistics on a large number of them.
@GeneralPet2 жыл бұрын
@@joshbutts3143 Lol it totally is. For example the fraction of the total proton momentum that a single quark carries is random, based on a distribution function. Feynman's point was about quantitative (which includes statistics) vs qualitative guesses.
@joshbutts31432 жыл бұрын
@@Jackissimus I didnt think of that. very good point.
@spider-uh5ws Жыл бұрын
Feynman's technique is marvelous, the way he explains is seen to be put in simple terms while still maintaining the details
@freebornjohn26873 жыл бұрын
Feynman once said we don't live in a scientific age. The reaction to Covid by individuals, the media and politicians has shown how right he was.
@gerryjtierney2 жыл бұрын
@jshowa o Keep bleating. You're in the cult of scientism, an embarrassment to the scientific method.
@tgstudio852 жыл бұрын
@@gerryjtierney Cult? Most scientists agree that viruses exist, that epidemics exists, so what is more likely that all scientist lie about covid, or that it is real?
@turtlord2 жыл бұрын
@@tgstudio85 More important than the question whether anything exists is the insight that (objective) science can never give you an imperative of action, because this is part of the subjective decision on what you are actually wanting to achieve. Nowadays pseudoscience is marked by a constant claim that science proved we should implement these and those measures, which is not only beyond the mandate of science but actually an instrumentalisation of the latter and as such an insult to free mankind.
@factsevidenceagainstmarxis44742 жыл бұрын
@jshowa o 😂🤦🏻👎🏼
@nicosmind32 жыл бұрын
@@tgstudio85 do you know the majority scientific opinion on covid? But excluding that what scientists have a high enough education in economics to recommend policies to follow that won't cause more harm than good? What about years lost to covid? 600,000 school children suffering from malnutrition and poverty first year due to shutdowns. Is sacrificing our young to spare our old really the way forward? In the west those born into poverty live to their 60s, and economic shutdowns caused a lot of poverty. So why have mass shutdowns which cause poverty when the so few people were at risk? In the UK our average lifespan is 81 years old, yet the average covid death was 84. We also know that large percentages of the human populace, including all ages, had natural immunity and would never get sick. So why do they need a vaccine and a vaccine passport? Why not an immunity passport? Why ignore all the data that natural immunity is better? Why vaccinate the young? Why implement policies that reduce people's natural immunity if herd immunity is the goal? There's a lot of questions a thinking person asks, and a lot of things to consider, and not just scientists to listen to. But most importantly scientists had lots of different opinions backed up with solid peer review research. Ignoring one group and only listening to another is always dangerous. Don't dismiss anything without assessing it's merits
@daisybuchanan82054 жыл бұрын
Other than his exceptionnel intellegence and amazing teaching skills, he has a beautiful handwriting, feynman is a fine man.
@JonathanReynolds1 Жыл бұрын
Richard Feynman was a great scientist and pioneer of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED). He was a student of John Wheeler (a great physicist in his own right). Feynman was also on the scientific panel investigating the cause of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster in 1986. He passed away in 1988. RIP 🙏🙏🙏
@shahabmamaghani1225 Жыл бұрын
It’s my honor to listen words of one of the greatest scientists in the human history. Thanks
@danremenyi11793 жыл бұрын
Every single research students should see this. It is really great.
@infiniteflow7092 Жыл бұрын
If I could teleport back in time at a place of my choosing; it would be in the classroom where Feynman was giving these lectures.
@garethwest9069 Жыл бұрын
If I could teleport back in time at a place of my choosing it would be to when God was creating life so I could take a video and stick it to the 'evolutionists'.
@danielscheinhaus52104 жыл бұрын
It's so refreshing to hear a NY accent!
@jemert963 жыл бұрын
He sounds like a 1940s radio host
@moonverine Жыл бұрын
One of the better TED talks I've seen!
@Ambienfinity Жыл бұрын
Inimitable -- the humour, the charisma, the common sense. What an amazing lecturer he was. Just amazing.
@martonk5 жыл бұрын
His gestures are enjoyable to watch
@glashoppah2 жыл бұрын
A model of flawless clarity from the most original mind of the 20th Century. Feynman’s value came from his utter immunity to bullshit - he took absolutely no one’s word for anything. We sure could use him today.
@dickaubrecht98425 жыл бұрын
This a very small part of a series of Feynman gave at CORNELL in the 1950’s. You might want to post all of them. He had a very unique presentation that helped scientists and non scientist to understand the basics.
@LeopoldBlooom Жыл бұрын
Never gets old! so necessary this day. Incredibly brilliant man.
@TheManBehlndTheSlaughter2 жыл бұрын
We need more teachers like these.
@f3ynman1um85 жыл бұрын
I like how he still read the letters just to be sure
@f3ynman1um83 жыл бұрын
Just rewatched this and the fact that he read the letters just to be sure got me laughing
@davidstorrs Жыл бұрын
How amazing is it that a theoretical physicist got letters about his work sent by lay people? Feynman was a legend.
@AlJey0074 жыл бұрын
it would be completely impossible not to absolutely love school with a teacher like that
@medickson20002 жыл бұрын
I really wish he was my professor. This man has such a way with words. So inspiring! I want to be a theoretical physicist. ❤️
@KingTranscended9 жыл бұрын
I ike the fact that he states that a theory is never right but rather has not yet been proven wrong. Which is key because it will allow for less resistance if or when the theory is proven wrong.
@MumblingMickey8 жыл бұрын
+Mr. Transcendence A theory is a body of knowledge... its not a single statement that can lend itself to being disproved or proven. Laws and principles however are proven or disproved.... there is resistance to a law or theorem being disproved not from scientists so much but rather from nature because technically its not possible.... you can't undiscover axiomatic facts.... nobody will ever discover that Archimedes principle is not the case... once its found to be the case thats it...case closed. However we MIGHT discover a new material with properties that allowed for a higher upward force when immersed in water.... and this might be then added to the theory of fluid mechanics. So newtons laws even though technically not completely accurate are still part of gravitation theory... but Einstein or Laplace or Gauss discovering that they are not completely accurate does not mean gravitation theory is wrong.
@MatthewBerginGarage8 жыл бұрын
+MumblingMickey "but Einstein or Laplace or Gauss discovering that they are not completely accurate does not mean gravitation theory is wrong." Sorry if it is not completely accurate then it is wrong. It might still be useful but it is still wrong.
@JorgetePanete5 жыл бұрын
@@MumblingMickey Check your grammar.
@JayJay-ki4mi4 жыл бұрын
Feynman is awesome. Since this talk though there's been advancements in our understanding and what we know about the quantum realm than was not known back then. Remember, this is a talk on Newtonian physics and what Feynman is saying is "there are limits to what physics can and cannot answer".
@devdroid9606 Жыл бұрын
If the experience doesn't support the guess (hypothesis), it doesn't mean that the latter is wrong. It just means that the hypothesis is not supported. There can still be a reason to believe a hypothesis that has been shown to be unsupported. If you design an experiment that purposely overcomes a shortcomings of previous experiments, then you may be a brilliant scientist. Which is exactly what he says about Newton's experiments.
@nmarbletoe8210 Жыл бұрын
Agree. Supported/ unsupported :)
@florirbiral497010 жыл бұрын
The arrogant genius of the brightest mind and the greatest orator of our time. Great Richard Feynman, can't ever get enough of you!
@ssh835 жыл бұрын
Arrogance is being blinded by pride. It is the refusal to admit mistake in the face of empirical truth. It is the root of Feynman's various antagonists but not himself. His confidence to share his thoughts freely is built on his strong will that even when he is wrong, he will just admit, learn, and be better. His pride is built on his list of accomplishments unmatched by most. There is no arrogance here.
@physicsguybrian5 жыл бұрын
@@ssh83 very well said!!
@sheriffjohnbird31794 жыл бұрын
This is a great example of why Feynman is adored by scientists.
@toutouneduberry69010 жыл бұрын
A great Professor indeed. Things, points which are very tough to understand turn out to be so clear and easy from Feynman's mouth. A great man, a brillant man for mankind. Thanks a lot for the sharing. That's pretty smart.
@possumverde8 жыл бұрын
Why has the clarifying statement he made at the end of the "If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong" part been edited out? (something I've noticed quite a few other channels seem to have done as well..) In the full version he goes on to clarify that it's wrong once one has gone back and made sure the results are accurate and not the product of human / experimental error etc. somewhere along the way..
@20728 жыл бұрын
+possumverde probably because it's an edited version taken from another video where they had to make it shorter to make it fit removing "redundant" parts...
@possumverde8 жыл бұрын
Inogan Cool, some of the channels I've come across with the edited version are hard core anti-science channels who use it as a bit of quote mining in an attempt to make an argument that theoretical science is unscientific (since a good deal of it...especially physics...is currently beyond our technological ability to test)...a point of view Feynman would strongly have disagreed with and covered later on in this particular lecture series...
@scottwebber45404 жыл бұрын
I wish my science teachers were like this man.
@ColonelFredPuntridge2 жыл бұрын
If they were, they probably wouldn't be your science teachers.
@zhuzzir3 жыл бұрын
The 1st thing that catched me is his handwriting over the board... Its awesome, beautiful n done/written spontaneously! I repeatedly watches part everytimes he wrote on the board!
@c0wbait Жыл бұрын
I've never in my life used my "i'd like to like this video more than once", but here I am begging
@samanderson38010 жыл бұрын
what an intellectual giant.legendary teacher
@MrTFour8 жыл бұрын
The fact that this video has no more than 500.000 views says a lot about the times we are living in..................
@TheAtheist22 Жыл бұрын
Professor Feynman. What an Incredible mind.
@cynthiaklenk63134 жыл бұрын
Once again Dr. Feynman lays it all out - simply and elegantly. Folks who think "politics" (a human construct) has anything to do with this methodology (for that is what it is) misses the boat - they do not understand or they have been mislead, and likely had failing grades in all of their science and math classes in high school, or one or more of their teachers failed them in comprehending the scientific method and simply passed them.
@ashwin21125 жыл бұрын
@0:40 looks like he makes direct reference to Dirac, who exactly thought what mathematical formulae should represent. In a way experiments should agree with mathematical laws.
@samd2013 Жыл бұрын
Woah, it’s jack Quaid
@pleappleappleap11 жыл бұрын
I've spoken to more than a couple of Nobel Prize winners in my time. The one thing that I've found they all share is that their ideas are all very simple. I'd go further to say that most of the really great ideas are.
@ColonelFredPuntridge2 жыл бұрын
That varies. I would hardly call Yuan T. Lee's ideas "simple". Or Melvin Calvin's. Or Eric Kandel's.
@ricardog51214 жыл бұрын
How things were discussed back then, is nostalgic and Dad, since how discussions are handled now a days.
@NLPClarity11 жыл бұрын
"Physics changes, reality stays the same" ~Richard Bandler, father of NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
@4rLWeSFHRggQ Жыл бұрын
Physics stays the same, only our understanding changes. Too bad there are many people like you who don’t notice the very important distinction.
@MDMAx3 жыл бұрын
"You're giving the psychological matter to things that can't be described so precisely. Yes. But then you can't claim to know anything about them." 6:33
@feisalmohamed97973 жыл бұрын
No, he said you are dealing with psychological matters and these cannot be defined so precisely. The psychological matter he refers to is the hypothesis of how much love is sufficient in explaining why the child hates the mother. Feynman here argues that you cannot attach a numerical value that would necessitate a certain conclusion and would be the only plausible interpretation of the consequences or the results. Of- course love cannot be defined in such a manner therefore Feynman here suggests we ought not claim any scientific knowledge on it.
@hemendrakumardayabhaimanik23062 жыл бұрын
All the lectures of great scientists/men, Feynman specially, on videos ought to be sub-titled for the benefit of all.
@MasterKoala7772 жыл бұрын
I wonder what he's say about UAPs admitted by the US Navy, if he were alive today. He had always spoken with an open mind and humility.
@AnnDeschenes7 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! Feynman one inspiring human.
@ackmonra11 жыл бұрын
I myself grew in my mother's womb from a single cell to the complex life-form your communicating with now. I'm well aware of the complexity of the modern cell but also that life was cellar for the first 3 billion years of life on earth; sufficent time to aquire the compexity we see. If there is a gap in your scientific knowledge; you can perform experiments and research to find out what is most likely true and accept your conclusions to the degree the evidence demands. That isn't faith.
@chainesciences71252 жыл бұрын
Many years have passed but this method remains
@CurtHowland11 жыл бұрын
"But I read them, to make sure." And -that- is what makes a great scientist. The willingness to listen to any idea.
@ColonelFredPuntridge2 жыл бұрын
He wasn't really, you know. Listening to any idea takes time, and he was a busy guy.
@cirzett502810 жыл бұрын
brilliant "yes but then you can't claim to know anything about it" hahaha
@johnbyrd74004 жыл бұрын
It's also that kind of statement that makes psychology look more like quackery or pseudo science than an actual field of research. Either the results of it can be trusted or it's very much a profession of highly educated guessers without any experts.
@berndeckenfels4 жыл бұрын
That's actually a bit of a shame. There are fields where experiments and proofs are harder or impossible, and the fields are aware of that. But they still are essential for our health and survival, so they should not be disregarded as weaker science,
@odyseuszkoskiniotis62664 жыл бұрын
It's funny cuz it's true
@Twistedhippy4 жыл бұрын
Falsification has issues with it as well, although Popper was a brilliant man. Its almost like science cannot "prove" anything, only disprove.
@ghada67634 жыл бұрын
"if the process of calculating the consequences (of your guess) is indefinite, then with a little effort any experimental result can be made to look like an expected consequence" (and thus giving the delusion that your theory is "right") Just how important these words are? I feel previliged that i got to hear them and understand them from him. If half the population had access to that sort of education i think that the world would be a far better place to live in.
@EPaulIII3 жыл бұрын
I think you miss his real point. No theory is completely correct. All of them only go so far and it is only a matter of time before someone discovers where any given theory is incorrect. It is then that science advances. Not when a theory is proven correct, but when one is proven wrong. Thus Einstein, Heisenberg, and many others are an advancement over Newton and others will come who will advance us even further by showing that even the present heroes of science are also ultimately wrong.
@Igor-ug1uo Жыл бұрын
2:22 "That still is a phenomenon" Always cracks me up 😀
@ezbo1883 Жыл бұрын
9:44 " i read them to make sure" this is a very clever sentence in that it points out what his actual intentions are in his work, as a scientist or whatever you might call someone like Feynman.
@GrifMoNeY11 жыл бұрын
5:23 "I think everything is all due to moogles." Kupo!