Richard Feynman on the uncertainty of knowledge. 2:50 video:
Previously:
Richard Feynman explains: What keeps a train on the track?
Richard Feynman on organic food and pseudoscience - video
Richard Feynman on the uncertainty of knowledge. 2:50 video:
Previously:
Richard Feynman explains: What keeps a train on the track?
Richard Feynman on organic food and pseudoscience - video
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Duke_of_URL (Feb 9, 2021), mklotz (Feb 9, 2021), nova_robotics (Feb 9, 2021), Philip Davies (Feb 12, 2021), Scotsman Hosie (Feb 13, 2021), tonyfoale (Feb 10, 2021)
One of the first things I learned in college, though not in any classroom, was that most of what is wrong in the world stems from man's need to have an explanation for everything, even if that means conjuring up magical beings with unrealistic capabilities.
Real science doesn't need immediate explanations; packaging observations into an after the fact theory is good enough so long as one is willing to discard that theory as soon as a contradiction is observed and proved genuine.
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Regards, Marv
Experience is always far worse than pessimism
FEM2008 (Feb 10, 2021), rgsparber (Feb 13, 2021), Scotsman Hosie (Feb 13, 2021), tonyfoale (Feb 10, 2021)
Dr. Richard Feynman was one of the greatest minds America ever produced. It's rare that a physicist must develop his own mathematics to explain his physics, but that is what Professor Feynman did. A brilliant and yet very practical man. The interview with him that showed on PBS back in the 1980's from the BBC Interview was probably THE best interview with a scientist that I've ever watched (and it's not because I was in Physics grad school at the time either!).
Scotsman Hosie (Feb 13, 2021)
Some of my favorite Feynman quotes...
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.
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Regards, Marv
Experience is always far worse than pessimism
FEM2008 (Feb 10, 2021), rgsparber (Feb 13, 2021), Scotsman Hosie (Feb 13, 2021), tonyfoale (Feb 10, 2021)
Scotsman Hosie (Feb 13, 2021)
@0:27 - I like his subtle jab at the over-exuberance of the all-encompassing theory pushers (like the Theory of Everything).
Scotsman Hosie (Feb 13, 2021)
Scotsman Hosie (Feb 13, 2021)
I wonder what Richard would have had to say if he had lived to see college courses of study like:
social ecology
equine kinesiology
or colleges that grant a BS in music...
https://music.osu.edu/future/undergr...chelor-science
https://www.bachelorstudies.com/BSc/Music/
Last edited by mklotz; Feb 10, 2021 at 02:22 PM.
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Regards, Marv
Experience is always far worse than pessimism
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