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"You gotta stop and think about it to really get the pleasure about the complexity, the inconceivable nature of nature."
- Richard Feynman
Although we humans cut nature up in different ways, and
We have different courses in different departments, such compartmentalization is really artificial, and
We should take our intellectual pleasures where we find them.
"I think with science, one of the things that makes it very difficult is that
It takes a lot of imagination."
- Richard Feynman
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So while I was a professor, I could act very much like a student, even a freshman.
I could be mistaken for a freshman in a perfectly legitimate way.
The physical world was real, and the mathematics,
I had become enthralled with, but not for itself, really — you know what I mean?
It was fascinating, but my real heart was somewhere else.
So I decided, I have to get my hands dirty,
I can’t stand these abstract things.
So I changed to electrical engineering, because there was something that was real.
But then some few months later,
I realized I’d gone too far, and that somewhere in between — that physics was the right place.
Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly,
Not in terms of your naïve ideals of your own youth,
Nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher’s ideals are.
If you expect science to give you all the answers to the wonderful questions about
what we are, where we are going, and what the meaning of the universe is,then
I think you could easily become disillusioned and look for a mystic answer to these problems.
This is the lecture @naval is talking about :
feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/…
Richard Feynman retweeted
That's right. I was paraphrasing from memory. Only retrieved the Feynman letter from my mum later.
Replying to @PhysInHistory @marcuschown
{Complete Note}
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science-
for to fill your heart with love is enough!
Ignore your son's attempts to teach you physics,
Physics is not the most important thing,
Love is.
via @Robot_Feynman


