Richard Feynman. Why.

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  • @freedomworks3976
    @freedomworks3976 5 років тому +23432

    Feynman gets stopped by a cop.
    Cop : why were you speeding ?
    Feynman : what do you mean why ?
    Half hour later
    Cop : please just leave me alone

    • @RODWALLBANGER
      @RODWALLBANGER 5 років тому +411

      Freedom Works many people will respond with a simple Lol. I actually laughed hard at your post. Excellent. Thank you for the laugh. Kudos

    • @mmv9155
      @mmv9155 5 років тому +60

      lolol

    • @akihitonarihisago4276
      @akihitonarihisago4276 5 років тому +59

      I died🤣🤣
      Maybe because read your comment exactly at the time when feynman asked such a question

    • @juliorodriguez1634
      @juliorodriguez1634 5 років тому +23

      Freedom Works I laughed so hard when I read your comment. Thank you!

    • @RobertoDonatoFS
      @RobertoDonatoFS 5 років тому +16

      😂🤣🤣

  • @matthewsawczyn6592
    @matthewsawczyn6592 3 роки тому +6606

    If this man ever talks to toddlers, the conversation will be infinite

    • @TheMennoXD
      @TheMennoXD 3 роки тому +116

      Lol because they always ask why

    • @TheMennoXD
      @TheMennoXD 3 роки тому +33

      I still do

    • @BradKwfc
      @BradKwfc 3 роки тому +128

      Why will it be infinite?
      Richard goes straight into an infinite loop discussing the infinite.

    • @thisismonitor4099
      @thisismonitor4099 3 роки тому +122

      He actually did. He talked to me when I was a toddler at a physics conference in Greece and i remember it well. However, at the time I thought my father (another physicist) was smarter than him:)

    • @amysteriouspersonintophat1458
      @amysteriouspersonintophat1458 3 роки тому +20

      @@thisismonitor4099 Really? That's really cool! What did you talk to him about? :D

  • @thatsalex5298
    @thatsalex5298 4 роки тому +4286

    Interviewer: Why do magnets repel each other?
    Feynman: You wouldn‘t get it...

    • @baedenmckell5043
      @baedenmckell5043 4 роки тому +104

      perfect paraphrase

    • @ImHeadshotSniper
      @ImHeadshotSniper 4 роки тому +138

      the very moment when Feynman says "when you explain a why, you have to be in a framework where you allow something to be true, otherwise you're perpetually asking why", i believe it makes it very clear that his soul purpose in life is to EDUCATE in the form of changing peoples viewpoints to always consider the "Scientific Method", even if you're a simple person such as this interviewer who Feynman likely knows very well will have no interest in actually studying magnets to actually understand them.
      i believe he is basically saying, unless you really take the effort the understand the fundamentals of literally every single aspect of the question you're asking via experiment or experimental data, then your knowledge of that question is entirely based on what you read/see/ or are told.
      this may be because i just finished watching his Scientific Method video as well, but to me it seems he basically found it very reasonable to apply the Scientific Method to any aspect of life as lets you take into account all possible biases in the situation which can be incredibly helpful for solving problems, and literally every single thing you do in life could be considered a problem you can solve.

    • @Jayhhardy
      @Jayhhardy 4 роки тому +5

      Simple answer

    • @rishabhroy1774
      @rishabhroy1774 4 роки тому +4

      @@ImHeadshotSniper May I have the link for the Scientific Method video please.

    • @rishabhroy1774
      @rishabhroy1774 4 роки тому +2

      @@ImHeadshotSniper Thanks!

  • @NeonKnightXD
    @NeonKnightXD 9 місяців тому +96

    I bet at first the interviewer felt ashamed for asking the question, but after few minutes of Feynman giving this EPIC speech, he couldn't have felt any better about asking it :D

    • @AlanCanon2222
      @AlanCanon2222 8 місяців тому +6

      That would be Christopher Sykes, who, when asked once what he did for a living, replied, "I make films about Richard Feynman".

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 8 місяців тому +1

      The interviewer had nothing to feel ashamed about. It is Feynman who doesn't hear one of the finest science questions that one can possibly ask. Neither is Feynman in a good situation here because in an interview the man with the camera always has the upper hand. If he decides to show one of your weakest performances as a human being, then you are toast. And, yes, that is what the interviewer did here.

    • @automotive474
      @automotive474 8 місяців тому +3

      A good interviewer.

    • @ballparkjebusite
      @ballparkjebusite Місяць тому +1

      I thought the interviewer showed confidence and fortitude in the face of unexpected resistance to “a perfectly reasonable question”

    • @oO-_-_-_-Oo
      @oO-_-_-_-Oo 2 дні тому

      Well said!

  • @AbhishekSharma-zq5qk
    @AbhishekSharma-zq5qk 5 років тому +10875

    'Some husbands arent interested in their wives' - Richard Feynman explaining magnetism.

    • @athleticaesthetixfitness6937
      @athleticaesthetixfitness6937 5 років тому +64

      Opposites attract on the macro scale just as frequently as on the micro and quantum scale

    • @RIPToot
      @RIPToot 5 років тому +31

      If feels like he is projecting raw that. He is a thought train conductor

    • @firozosman
      @firozosman 5 років тому +9

      Good catch Abhishek! 👏

    • @DavidPellerinmaison
      @DavidPellerinmaison 5 років тому +7

      In fact the dude was apparently very attracted and interested to his wife... therefore, its elsewhere he lacked...

    • @dontinjectdisinfectant9919
      @dontinjectdisinfectant9919 5 років тому +7

      😆

  • @danielisenberg2360
    @danielisenberg2360 3 роки тому +3968

    I just had an epiphany. This is why young kids ask "why?" over and over. They don't have the framework with which to understand the answer that those with more experience understand intuitively.

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 3 роки тому +31

      That's cool, but just like every other little kid in this comment section you missed the question at 0:10. :-)

    • @hugobraat2104
      @hugobraat2104 3 роки тому +110

      Epiphany? You mean you used to think they asked why to annoy you?

    • @MovementLiquid
      @MovementLiquid 3 роки тому +77

      @@schmetterling4477 I think you missed the rest of the video between 0:00 and 7:32 :-)

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 3 роки тому +3

      @@MovementLiquid When Feynman has a meltdown because, like you, he didn't listen carefully at 0:10? No, I didn't miss that, but that's Feynman's shame and yours. :-)

    • @nielsendc1
      @nielsendc1 3 роки тому +17

      I have a 3 year old asking why all the time and i actually just had the exact same thought. I think there is definitely some truth in that.

  • @yorkerold
    @yorkerold 5 років тому +2213

    This is how you give your job interviewer an existential crisis.

    • @waldwassermann
      @waldwassermann 4 роки тому +33

      I actually suggest anyone having an existential crisis to watch these videos. Perhaps that's how we all got here.

    • @joshuarohantitchener7395
      @joshuarohantitchener7395 4 роки тому +5

      That is the intended effect

    • @KibyNykraft
      @KibyNykraft 4 роки тому +7

      You're joking. He barely gave a high school teacher answer of BASICS, and mostly just avoids the question.

    • @AppleOfThineEye
      @AppleOfThineEye 4 роки тому +22

      @@KibyNykraft Splish splash your opinion is trash

    • @djoakeydoakey1076
      @djoakeydoakey1076 4 роки тому +1

      @@AppleOfThineEye Why did I find your comment funny?

  • @Iruleyouforafee
    @Iruleyouforafee Рік тому +198

    This is the greatest version of: "I can explain it, but I'm not sure how much of it you would understand" that anyone has ever said.

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 Рік тому +8

      The sad thing is that he would have been able to explain the answer to the actual question quite well. He just didn't hear it. Watch the video carefully. You will notice that he was very tired. His eyes were glazing over when the interviewer asked the actual question at the ten second mark. He didn't get it and he misunderstood what he was being asked to explain. The whole thing went down from there because what he thought he was being asked is not a physics question that can be answered in anything less than a whole semester course called "Magnetism", which is so awful that I hope that you will never be required to take it. I was. ;-)

    • @johnjordan6032
      @johnjordan6032 8 місяців тому +9

      Not really, it’s more of a “we don’t f*ckn know so what do you want me to tell you?”

    • @Iruleyouforafee
      @Iruleyouforafee 8 місяців тому +2

      @@johnjordan6032 he clearly knows. He just explained it quite clearly.

    • @dianevandenhaak468
      @dianevandenhaak468 8 місяців тому +1

      That is exactly it! A very long polite way to say" You wouldn't understand" Beautiful!

    • @rstrid5505
      @rstrid5505 Місяць тому +1

      @@Iruleyouforafee explain it clearly?! he just said something vague about it being the same force that affects electricity and that it is just a fundamental part of the universe. Nothing in there clearly demonstrated anything. His answer was basically, “because” 😂

  • @Atombender
    @Atombender 5 років тому +2908

    Interviewer: "Magnets? How do they work?"
    Feynman: "Listen...hospitals..."

    • @logicalapple_3274
      @logicalapple_3274 5 років тому +26

      deserves more likes

    • @aldrinb.e4297
      @aldrinb.e4297 5 років тому +2

      Lol

    • @elietheprof5678
      @elietheprof5678 5 років тому +16

      Real juggalos don't wanna talk to a scientist...

    • @gregoryjclark81
      @gregoryjclark81 5 років тому +8

      @@elietheprof5678 Real scientists prefer zero association with Juggalos, real or fake, let alone conversation...

    • @SolaceInHD
      @SolaceInHD 5 років тому +3

      Ya I'm a scientist and I don't want anything to do with juggalos

  • @coolz9479
    @coolz9479 5 років тому +3981

    interviewer: "so why is aunt minnie in the hospital?"
    feynman: "ok so magnets..."

    • @jayeshunde1481
      @jayeshunde1481 5 років тому +13

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @Nikolapoleon
      @Nikolapoleon 5 років тому +93

      "Why is Aunt Minnie in the hospital?"
      "Because water expands when it freezes, and because of gravity, which involves the planets and everything else. Frankly, it's impossible to really understand why she's there."
      "You are a bad cousin, Richard."

    • @matthewnewton8812
      @matthewnewton8812 5 років тому +3

      Yes. Yessss.....is this being clever? That’s exactly what he’s saying. Aunt Minnie is in the hospital because of electromagnetic forces holding molecules together in Aunt Minnie-shaped clumps, and gravitational forces attracting those clumps to larger clumps like planets. So, yes. You’re restating what he said. Is there a joke I’m missing?
      (AND BEFORE I CATCH ANY FLACK- yes I know smaller masses also tug on larger ones; but because electromagnetism is so vastly stronger, it takes a much larger body for gravity to overcome it and be noticed)

    • @musicfan1695
      @musicfan1695 4 роки тому +2

      that's incredibly funny hahaha

    • @ASLUHLUHC3
      @ASLUHLUHC3 4 роки тому

      Brilliant

  • @GAURAV-hm4xd
    @GAURAV-hm4xd 2 роки тому +2319

    Even after speaking on so many topics and fields in a single breath, he came back to original topic. That's an art. Many people tend to forget where they started.

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 2 роки тому +18

      Yes, he took seven minutes and still didn't answer the question at 0:10. He did talk a lot of nonsense, though. ;-)

    • @GAURAV-hm4xd
      @GAURAV-hm4xd 2 роки тому +63

      @@schmetterling4477 i think he did answered the questions in last few seconds. Iron atoms spinning in same direction magnifying the force which u generally dont feel in other materials.

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 2 роки тому +15

      @@GAURAV-hm4xd No, he didn't. The question at 0:10 was not about magnets. It was about the nature of the magnetic field. Do you know why he was being asked that? Because he wasn't a solid state physicist but a quantum field theorist. He got the Physics Nobel for developing the correct theory of the quantized electromagnetic field. He really didn't know much about magnetism and you can clearly tell by his struggling attempt to explain what he hadn't been asked to begin with.

    • @GAURAV-hm4xd
      @GAURAV-hm4xd 2 роки тому +2

      @@schmetterling4477 oh. U may be right. Thanks for telling me this.

    • @vigilante8374
      @vigilante8374 2 роки тому +27

      @@schmetterling4477 He answered the question at 0:10 at 0:32. The interviewer asked "why" at 0:37.

  • @etherealstars5766
    @etherealstars5766 2 роки тому +275

    This is why I LOVE the "Explained In 5 Levels" Series on UA-cam, covering all sorts of different subjects. You get to see the cut off in your own understanding, and the deepening of the explanations as they get more technical, but also the beauty in how complex things arise from simple concepts in a progression of stacking and intertwining knowledge.

    • @pianospeedrun
      @pianospeedrun Рік тому

      well worded

    • @AdelaideBen1
      @AdelaideBen1 Рік тому +11

      That's true - but the point is, you can start with the simple... and become more complex/nuanced. This video is the example of someone saying, it's ok you don't understand, you are dumb and don't need to. Learning should be focused (and this is a modern view) on the rising-lifts-all-boats. We need to encourage that the answers are easy, but the understanding is hard. If we can get more people past the first hurdle, the later ones become incrementally easier.

    • @hitchslap8254
      @hitchslap8254 Рік тому

      Thanks. Just looked it up!

    • @TheArrowedKnee
      @TheArrowedKnee Рік тому

      Exactly what i thought of when he started talking about the different kind of levels of his hospital analogy

  • @billpaxton7525
    @billpaxton7525 5 років тому +2510

    Imagine him at a job interview.

    • @riku4861
      @riku4861 5 років тому +10

      Bill Paxton lmao

    • @droptak
      @droptak 5 років тому +105

      Why do you want this job?

    • @cetinakkaya4607
      @cetinakkaya4607 5 років тому +249

      Bill paxton
      Boss : 'Why' should we hire you?
      Feynman : listen , because the ice slippery and so...

    • @bencorrigan2702
      @bencorrigan2702 5 років тому +5

      Great comment!

    • @wick9462
      @wick9462 5 років тому +8

      This was the funniest comment

  • @professormburatto7172
    @professormburatto7172 4 роки тому +2862

    Imagine a world with more teachers like this man. I wish I had teachers like him.

    • @leefithian3704
      @leefithian3704 4 роки тому +66

      Yes , he expands your methods of thinking about anything , it makes you more analytical about everything and gives you wisdom in dealing with the world around you at a safer level than just the simple mthd of not exploring he “why” deeper , it’s a survival skill multiplier , so to speak , if you choose to use the informationsafely

    • @joshuarohantitchener7395
      @joshuarohantitchener7395 4 роки тому +29

      He exists across dimensions and space you will meet him again when you finally confront your own suffering on your terms

    • @sgigi4839
      @sgigi4839 4 роки тому +7

      that would be awful. they're all boring now.

    • @Oscar_Armstrong
      @Oscar_Armstrong 4 роки тому +25

      This man is an amazing philosopher but would make a horrendous teacher. A teacher teaches, they don't question why, they teach you why.

    • @martinch.6257
      @martinch.6257 4 роки тому +86

      @@Oscar_Armstrong you do realize that he did, in fact, teach, and produce some of the best known lectures on physics?

  • @psychicbink4492
    @psychicbink4492 3 роки тому +2778

    2 lessons I perceive:
    1. Asking "why" allows to start on the journey of discovery
    2. Discovery ends only when the observer decides that they are done searching

  • @lucasm5334
    @lucasm5334 Рік тому +307

    Feynman's wife: why is there lipstick on you neck?
    Feynman:

    • @nateo200
      @nateo200 11 місяців тому +2

      Ahahaha

    • @Gumshrud1
      @Gumshrud1 7 місяців тому +2

      "what lipstick"

    • @jonijarkko123
      @jonijarkko123 6 місяців тому +15

      6:41 this would be the actual answer

    • @ilyakalinin2660
      @ilyakalinin2660 6 місяців тому +1

      Severely underrated

    • @chrislee176
      @chrislee176 4 місяці тому +1

      @@jonijarkko123 lol

  • @stefanserofuggsgiven2981
    @stefanserofuggsgiven2981 3 роки тому +2275

    Teacher: Why did you forget homework!?
    Me: See, when you ask why something happens....

    • @IanDoesMagic
      @IanDoesMagic 3 роки тому +48

      You are the real genius here. Thank you.

    • @IanDoesMagic
      @IanDoesMagic 3 роки тому +32

      @vladimir putin is andrei panin jfk is jimmy carter How do you know that you're not hallucinating right now and just responding to things you've imagined? Ultimately we can be certain of very little, but if something has been verified by enough other people, it's worth trusting them. If we try to verify every detail of every piece of information in our life we won't have time for stuff like ice cream or youtube.

    • @qnm7704
      @qnm7704 3 роки тому +1

      😂🤣

    • @user-fc5wq3sb4f
      @user-fc5wq3sb4f 3 роки тому +3

      Thats an excellent question.

    • @shashwatprakash8516
      @shashwatprakash8516 3 роки тому +1

      You are a fing genius you

  • @513morris
    @513morris 5 років тому +2304

    If he had only asked him why ice is slippery, he might have found out more about how magnets work.

  • @IronCandyNotes
    @IronCandyNotes 5 років тому +5067

    Your mind doesn't have the packages installed required to run this explanation.

  • @esoteric404
    @esoteric404 2 роки тому +78

    i could literally listen to this guy speak for hours and never get bored.

    • @Mg3-Si2-O5-OH4
      @Mg3-Si2-O5-OH4 Рік тому +6

      I don’t think he would either

    • @AdelaideBen1
      @AdelaideBen1 Рік тому

      @@Mg3-Si2-O5-OH4 The funniest comment I've read so far. Spot on.

  • @Saturn-uz6jc
    @Saturn-uz6jc 5 років тому +2464

    Interviewer: Why?
    Feynman: I'm boutta end this whole man's career

    • @PartiallyAgonized
      @PartiallyAgonized 5 років тому +24

      No, you were bout to leave the most original comment on UA-cam.

    • @stef25ify
      @stef25ify 5 років тому +3

      I made is this far down the comments before pretty much pissing my pants with laughter

    • @squamish4244
      @squamish4244 5 років тому +2

      And his sanity.

    • @CSP-777Cinema.Science.Politics
      @CSP-777Cinema.Science.Politics 4 роки тому +3

      Thank you very much brother. This one made my day

    • @thelaurels13
      @thelaurels13 4 роки тому +2

      Nobody ever says that bone head! Such an unoriginal cretinous comment.

  • @BeSmarterFaster
    @BeSmarterFaster 3 роки тому +3277

    Feynman's ability to instantly delve deeply into the topic of "Why' with so many examples that are immediately relatable is really quite remarkable. He takes what seems to be on the surface a simple question and expounds on it to an extraordinarly deep level. He really was quite a fascinating person to listen to.

    • @walter4180
      @walter4180 3 роки тому +89

      Sure but the dude just wanted an answer to how magnets work.

    • @voicetube
      @voicetube 3 роки тому +31

      ​@@walter4180 I'm with you Walter; in a sense, Feyman sort of gives a good reason as to why he didn't need to go into any of that. It's called "reading the room." It's pretty obvious to most people watching this video (or that film) that the dude asking wanted to know some of the inner workings of the physical universe that aren't so apparent on the surface as regards magnetism. If you go to my channel and watch my recent Vlog on magnetism, you will get a much clearer understanding of this magical force (that was a joke - I generally make an ass of myself - purposely :-)
      In any event, the basic principles of magnetism and why it seems like magic but the explanation of why it isn't maybe given in about one or two minutes would have sufficed.

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 3 роки тому +50

      @@voicetube That's complete nonsense. Feynman simply messed up here. There was no need to start a rant about why questions. The initial question was "What is that feeling (force) between two magnets?". That is a perfectly fine physics question that has a straight forward answer. Why Feynman couldn't give it is a mystery to me.

    • @danielrelva
      @danielrelva 3 роки тому +55

      @@schmetterling4477 because almost every question of magnetism doesn't have simple answers. He tried to say that on the beginning but the man wasnt satisfied. So Feynman just explained how his question will turn in another ten questions and will take hours to explain

    • @johncoops6897
      @johncoops6897 3 роки тому +27

      @@schmetterling4477 - It's simply because he is such a smart-arse dickhead that he didn't know HOW to answer it. So smug and arrogant in his own self-righteousness, yet totally unable to answer the most simple question.
      There are various technical terms, including "fuckwit", "knob-jockey", "bell-end" and "tool".... mostly related to penises, however it's notable that a penis is a useful object.

  • @saltstillwaters7506
    @saltstillwaters7506 3 роки тому +2451

    Interviewer: So why did Aunt Minnie go to the hospital?
    Feynman: Ok so magnets...

  • @maryetdave
    @maryetdave Місяць тому +8

    Legend has it that he is still answering the question

  • @WeSaveWe
    @WeSaveWe 5 років тому +856

    Brilliant. I will use this approach to answer my 5 year-old nephews' 'why' questions going forward.

    • @Pallum13
      @Pallum13 5 років тому +51

      Why?

    • @m_c_frank
      @m_c_frank 5 років тому +26

      try asking your nephew about his own opinion to the "why" question. That worked for me.

    • @lordgaulo6520
      @lordgaulo6520 5 років тому +13

      I use this method with my children they are the hyper active type and they naturally don't think much but they enjoy the mental aerobics of these types of questions I think your nephew will also enjoy this type of game

    • @DDanV
      @DDanV 5 років тому +24

      You should rather listen to your 5 yo nephew's questions and wonder why yourself. That's actually the point Feynman makes: if you're curious enough you'll end up questioning why until you find the fundamental "why" that actually gives you fundamental and true understanding. We took more than 2 thousand years do find the "atom", that literally means uncuttable or indivisible, just to find out it wasn't the fundamental, smallest constituent unit of ordinary matter that the philosophers of old thought it was... so we asked "why" until we were satisfied just to discover 2 millenia after we didn't fully comprehend reality, we had an incomplete answer to our "why", and yet again we were asking "why", a new "why".
      I started out in Physics... I'll be asking why till the day I die. Your nephew is trying to understand the world, it's good that his curiosity still wasn't hampered and he still digs deeper on those why's, for as long as he does his understanding will deepen more than of those who stopped asking it earlier.

    • @crazydavec3861
      @crazydavec3861 5 років тому +3

      When you're done with so many "Why's" go "What's the next to last letter of the alphabet?" ... "Why"... "Correct, well done!" :)

  • @maksimkuzmin5246
    @maksimkuzmin5246 3 роки тому +1864

    Imagine him answering the question: "Why do you want to work for our company?"

    • @ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx
      @ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx 3 роки тому +96

      Recruiter: He talks a lot of stuff i dont understand.. HIERED!

    • @martinchitembo1883
      @martinchitembo1883 3 роки тому +18

      😂😂😂this comment is underestimated.

    • @jamesdoolan8040
      @jamesdoolan8040 3 роки тому +50

      'I don't want to work for you. I just need the money'

    • @ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx
      @ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx 3 роки тому +21

      @@jamesdoolan8040 This answer always gets you the job guaranteed.

    • @Yus1409
      @Yus1409 3 роки тому +1

      😂🤣😂

  • @NorroTaku
    @NorroTaku 3 роки тому +814

    this is exactly the kind of depth I wanted to hear as a kid ^^

    • @filippetersen1304
      @filippetersen1304 3 роки тому +33

      yes, yes! I totally agree! And as a father of a 7 year old child I hope that every time I tend to be anoyed by the billion questions a day I will remember this clip and very calmy explain the things, just the way they are and how "I"! understand them to my boy - in HIS language :-)

    • @David-ku6dm
      @David-ku6dm 3 роки тому +4

      Well said

    • @mik9napkin598
      @mik9napkin598 3 роки тому +2

      Just means you (and all of us) need to learn enough to provide this level of knowledge and intrigue for kids today.

    • @orthopraxis235
      @orthopraxis235 3 роки тому +10

      What this shows is that you are capable of many levels of understanding as a kid. The educational system in public and some private schools today wants to keep your stupid, so they provide stupid answers, the same stupid answers that Feyman is unwilling to use. Kids want to and understand the need to get it completely right. Adults don't want to take the time to indulge them.

    • @nickwilton6822
      @nickwilton6822 3 роки тому +3

      Why?

  • @RadiantFreeEnergyResearch
    @RadiantFreeEnergyResearch Рік тому +2

    i grew up around hundreds and thousands of people that spoke to me the exact same way richard feynman is speaking to the gentleman that is interviewing richard feynman. it was highly frustrating but most importantly, highly rewarding, because i learned how to think about thinking. i am very grateful for the time everyone spent, educating and guiding, my potential. truly wonderful.

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 11 місяців тому +1

      That's cool, but he didn't give you the correct answer here.

  • @Ixions
    @Ixions 4 роки тому +3137

    "Sir, this is a McDonald's drive-thru...."

    • @Jayhhardy
      @Jayhhardy 4 роки тому +61

      What do you mean by would I "like" fries with that? What do think it means to like? Let me explain weather we are even able to like in the way you think you like things. We can't. Do I want fries? Yes please.

    • @AdamTibbo
      @AdamTibbo 3 роки тому +5

      You win

    • @mickeymcnaughton2555
      @mickeymcnaughton2555 3 роки тому +6

      @@Jayhhardy But why does he (or she) ask the question; What do you mean by would I "like" fries with that? Probably because the McDonald's drive through assistant DIDN'T ask; DO you WANT fries with that?, Because he (or she) has probably been instructed to use the word, "like" when a customer orders, because it is a positive sales reinforcement technique.

    • @painstruck01
      @painstruck01 3 роки тому +9

      he'd make an excellent McDonald's manager. "sir, why are my fries cold?"

    • @attiylanen
      @attiylanen 3 роки тому

      LOL 🤣

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 3 роки тому +1944

    "Why"
    HIm: "And I took that personally."

  • @marthinus_2805
    @marthinus_2805 5 років тому +769

    Me: Hey Richard, what day is it?
    Him: Well, first you have to understand what a day is.

    • @entrancemperium5506
      @entrancemperium5506 5 років тому +1

      Here is a better analogy: Why today is Monday?

    • @robjohnson591
      @robjohnson591 5 років тому +5

      no. you ask him "what is today"
      Feynman: "Well, first you have to know what day it is NOT.
      Me: "Just answer the damn question! What is the truth!?"
      Feyman: You can't handle the truth!

  • @SimonGeraedts
    @SimonGeraedts 2 роки тому +54

    I could listen to this man for hours. The way he sees and describes the world is just so incredibly unique. I guess this is how a super intelligent alien would have answered that question. Never take anything for granted, always stay curious. 😊

  • @aubreyscott6058
    @aubreyscott6058 5 років тому +1375

    It's so neat how he detected the interviewer getting defensive and calmed him by saying "No, it's an excellent question!"

    • @MarsLonsen
      @MarsLonsen 5 років тому +69

      How? It's very human to detect the feelings of other humans and other living beings.

    • @vikitheviki
      @vikitheviki 5 років тому +9

      @@MarsLonsen Watch the clip again LOL

    • @MarsLonsen
      @MarsLonsen 5 років тому +5

      @@vikitheviki eh no LOL

    • @MarsLonsen
      @MarsLonsen 5 років тому +10

      @@vikitheviki tell me why its neat or stop wasting my time.

    • @Izkapts
      @Izkapts 5 років тому +104

      ​@@MarsLonsen Well, first you ask how did he detect it and I might tell you that he perceived it with his senses, but then you might ask how do senses tell us things. Then I might say that our sensory system consists of sensory organs that perceive outside stimuli and deliver it through a neural network to our brains. Then you might ask ''how come we have such sensory organs'' and so on... That's interesting.

  • @Euquila
    @Euquila 5 років тому +5244

    come here to learn about magnets. left with an anxiety attack and an existential crisis.

    • @CaptApril123
      @CaptApril123 5 років тому +214

      That's why there's a certain advantage in being dumb.

    • @Declan_Lyons
      @Declan_Lyons 5 років тому +51

      How does an existential crises feel?

    • @Yorkie-UK
      @Yorkie-UK 5 років тому +182

      @@Declan_Lyons I would say it feels with the force of rubber bands but I would be cheating...

    • @gilbert691
      @gilbert691 5 років тому +71

      I WONT take all day to explain to you "why" you made me laugh. Just accept that it was fucking funny.

    • @ALPalmos
      @ALPalmos 5 років тому +19

      This particular thread has made my day. Cackling. Thank-you!

  • @Mussi93
    @Mussi93 3 роки тому +1258

    Finally someone who gets straight to the point!

    • @goodisnipr
      @goodisnipr 2 роки тому +7

      Pelosi could learn so much...

    • @21.parthjoshi20
      @21.parthjoshi20 2 роки тому +59

      The whole point of the video is he didn't go straight to the point

    • @Thanos-hp1mw
      @Thanos-hp1mw 2 роки тому +71

      @@21.parthjoshi20 he DID go straight to the point by saying "magnets repel each other" however he predicted the interviewer would ask 'why' again and had to tell him that he could not explain anything deeper than this. It seems like very few people listened to him speak.

    • @trollme.trollmehard.9524
      @trollme.trollmehard.9524 2 роки тому +3

      This was quite clear to me.

    • @Ligierthegreensun
      @Ligierthegreensun 2 роки тому +2

      @@goodisnipr Touch grass.

  • @Robbo1966
    @Robbo1966 Рік тому +2

    This is brilliant, I keep coming back to this one to, most people seem not interested or devote the time to understanding the deeper meaning to fundamental questions, rather want quick answer to satisfy limited understanding.

  • @nvsabhishek7356
    @nvsabhishek7356 4 роки тому +662

    His last question to himself: "WHY did I ask him this?!!"

  • @david-barna
    @david-barna 3 роки тому +1053

    "Your aunt Minnie is in the hospital." - Feynman on magnetism

    • @JERLOG-y1g
      @JERLOG-y1g 3 роки тому +14

      Why? - Aunt Minnie on broke hip

    • @curtisa188
      @curtisa188 3 роки тому +2

      this is the most relevant summary

    • @curtisa188
      @curtisa188 3 роки тому +23

      •aunt minnie is in the hospital
      •ice is slippery
      •some husband aren't interested in their wife's welfare and are drunks
      •grease is wet and slimy
      •ordinary people don't know anything
      •if you put your hand on the chair it pushes you back
      •i can't explain it
      revise for test

    • @Carfeu
      @Carfeu 3 роки тому +2

      If you know why she slipped it’s because of quantum gravity

    • @neithere
      @neithere 3 роки тому

      @@curtisa188 and some people actually can't grasp anything else :/

  • @tannerallen597
    @tannerallen597 2 роки тому +1335

    This is actually an incredibly useful exercise in limiting the scope of a question. "How" and "why" questions have answers that are entirely defined by the expected knowledge of the *questioner,* just as much as that of the answerer. Notice how Feynman _did_ answer the question to various levels of satisfaction as a component of his overall criticism of asking unbounded questions.

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 2 роки тому +3

      Ah, there is the kid who didn't pay attention to the question at 0:10. :-)

    • @jloost-gamer
      @jloost-gamer 2 роки тому +19

      Schmetter Ling is right. The point is not that one has to limit the scope of a question, but that every question contains numerous, almost infinite implications and frameworks. Communication between two people always depends on these implications and frameworks, and part of Prof. Feynman's pleasure is that he WANTS you to ask deeper, deeper, deeper until you go with him to truly understand the marvels of the universe.

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 2 роки тому

      @@jloost-gamer Ah, more bullshit. ;-)

    • @dhawkins1234
      @dhawkins1234 2 роки тому +50

      @@schmetterling4477 do you really think the interviewer would have been satisfied with, "the magnetic force" in response to a question about what is it that he's feeling when he feels two magnets repel? The interviewer already knows that the magnetic force exists, but he's not clear about what is going on-he doesn't even have a framework to articulate why it seems mysterious to him that magnets repel each other. He wants a deeper answer than just, "they do" and yet ultimately, as Feynman points out, there is no deeper answer. It's a feature of the universe. You're the kid who is so convinced he's smarter than everyone else that he doesn't even need to listen to the full video before setting himself up as superior to Feynman. We get it, you think you're a genius, and so insecure you have to point out flaws in people with reputations for being brilliant.
      Christopher Sykes was the interviewer, and had immense respect for Feynman. Maybe you should consider that he got a lot more out of the answer than you think he did.

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 2 роки тому

      @@dhawkins1234 I mostly think that you just wrote a large amount of bullshit. ;-)

  • @sharptongue2972
    @sharptongue2972 5 років тому +315

    I agree. When most people answer "why" questions, they are actually answering "how" at a superficial level.

    • @GrammeStudio
      @GrammeStudio 5 років тому +32

      i don't think Feynman draws the difference here. I don't think he thinks the interviewers was mistaking motive or an agency behind natural phenomena. I think he sees the interviewers curiosity to ask such an interesting question about physics to be the start of an inquiry that if the interviewers is being scientific, would lead to a series of questions that would eventually bring him to the most fundamental question--a question about the fundamental forces. and so he's answering the question that would be asked in the future and pointing out that at the end of the would-be series of inquiry, the questioner would have to be contend with not knowing further because that's as far as one could explain. this fundamental premise is known as axiom. a valid axiom can be demonstrated by its alignment with reality--and hence verified with the senses.

    • @garysutherland7004
      @garysutherland7004 5 років тому +8

      @@GrammeStudio Well, there is also no known answer for why magnets work. I think he could have answered honestly, but had the wherewithal to explain his reasoning. The answer is that no one knows why.

    • @subhadeepmanna7106
      @subhadeepmanna7106 4 роки тому

      How?

    • @shrawan12321
      @shrawan12321 4 роки тому

      @clayfame I used to think the same. But if I carefully analyze answers that I am satisfied with, they are merely descriptions as well. More importantly, we can differentiate actual descriptions from false ones by being able to correctly predict outcomes of yet unknown scenarios. Then i ask why am i satisfied with some descriptions while a few others leave a bad taste (or a certain kind of uneasiness in accepting). The only answer I can come up with is randomness of my mental state of acceptance.. Given an alternate universe, I might have been satisfied and dissatisfied with completely different sets of descriptions.

    • @edek3159
      @edek3159 3 роки тому +2

      @@garysutherland7004 That's simply not true. There are varying levels to what 'understanding' is. As eloquently explained by Feynman in this video, there are varying depths of understanding how magnets work, that varies among different people. Eg. a university student will know more about how magnets work than say a child. Sure, we may not know how magnets work to the deepest level of quantum physics, but just because we do not, does not mean the answer is "no one knows".

  • @amityadav85
    @amityadav85 5 років тому +879

    me : why didn't you recommend this video sooner!?
    youtube: ok, so semiconductors.. . .

    • @shashank_srivastava
      @shashank_srivastava 5 років тому +8

      😂😂👌👌

    • @chandramouli3106
      @chandramouli3106 4 роки тому +2

      Why semiconductor?

    • @amityadav85
      @amityadav85 4 роки тому +12

      @@chandramouli3106 err.. Semiconductor materials are at the core of a computer processor.. Feynman is sure to go into that level of detail! 🤣

    • @kairostimeYT
      @kairostimeYT 4 роки тому +3

      Why are they used in computer core?

    • @amityadav85
      @amityadav85 4 роки тому +5

      @@kairostimeYT what do you mean why are they used in the computer core? 😂

  • @GreenEnvy.
    @GreenEnvy. 4 роки тому +713

    *Gives Richard a snicker bar*
    Feynman: "I see, it turns out I was just hungry."

  • @chriswilson6827
    @chriswilson6827 Місяць тому

    I start my days with this... There are levels to everything... Communication is more effective when we remain mindful of this!

  • @charleshirst6220
    @charleshirst6220 2 роки тому +720

    I have watched this so many times over te years that I almost know it off by heart; and yet, when I bump into it again I cannot resist istening to it yet again.

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 2 роки тому +2

      Yes, there is something magic about Feynman making a fool of himself, isn't it?

    • @ronniechilds2002
      @ronniechilds2002 2 роки тому +3

      Same here. I've also watched his famous lecture series several times. Never fails to draw me in.

    • @anthonymusto3537
      @anthonymusto3537 2 роки тому +12

      Why?

    • @lexandersig
      @lexandersig 2 роки тому +1

      Bacause you do not understand why.

    • @animalbird9436
      @animalbird9436 2 роки тому

      @@lexandersig comes after x and b4 z. Lol

  • @kanatsizkanatli
    @kanatsizkanatli 10 років тому +1898

    Wow! I mean, it's not just his explanation that is impressive, it's his ability to understand a question better than the person asking the question. He sees the inner workings of the mind of the interviewer, understands his motivation, notices a flaw or weakness in that mind and then sets out to repair or awaken that mind in that very precise and almost ruthless way of his!

    • @TheKwod
      @TheKwod 10 років тому +42

      Lol, he's a professional bullshitter.

    • @joedt1
      @joedt1 9 років тому +47

      TheKwod IS that what he won the Nobel for?

    • @TheKwod
      @TheKwod 9 років тому +10

      I suspect so, the committee does like to award prolific bullshitters at times.

    • @joedt1
      @joedt1 9 років тому +72

      TheKwod it was not the peace prize :) It was quantum physics :P

    • @TheKwod
      @TheKwod 9 років тому +5

      Not everyone believes in some of the mumbo jumbo of quantum physics.

  • @Undead8
    @Undead8 5 років тому +802

    When my daughter was about 2 years old, she went through a phase of asking "why" constantly. I would answer each question as best as I could, then she would ask another "why?", often to statements that were self-evident for me and everyone else. Seeing that video helped understand that she has a totally different framework than mine - she knows nothing about the world so everything needs to be explained to the most basic level.
    It would go on until she would have an answer that she understands in her framework or until she would not understand the words I was saying: "The car is white" - why? "hmm Because someone painted it white" - why? "Because I asked them to paint it white when I bought it" - why? "Because I like the color white, just like you like purple!" -oh... ok...

    • @PartiallyAgonized
      @PartiallyAgonized 5 років тому +17

      Umm yeah? I don't even have children and I knew this... this is something everyone already knows, you didn't need to spend the effort writing a whole novel about it.

    • @Jide-bq9yf
      @Jide-bq9yf 5 років тому

      Eric Yoon absolutely ; piss off @ Cousin Kyle .👎🏾

    • @smolytchannel5062
      @smolytchannel5062 5 років тому

      Lol I have a cousin who, when she says the why word, people just reply z and she just doesn't know how to come back from that

    • @Blubbha
      @Blubbha 5 років тому

      Best advice to keep trying to answer the whys. She will stop asking about the specifics after she feels to understand the deepest basics of it. Its something like the natural "first priciple".

    • @tonmoydeka7319
      @tonmoydeka7319 4 роки тому +1

      @@PartiallyAgonized how old are you?your words looks so childish

  • @MuthuKumaran-hb6ku
    @MuthuKumaran-hb6ku 7 місяців тому

    God what an amazing teacher he is....thanks to the uploader many others can benefit from this..

  • @onemanenclave
    @onemanenclave 6 років тому +269

    "I can't explain that attraction in terms of anything else that's familiar to you."
    That sums it up well.

    • @fidziek
      @fidziek 5 років тому +9

      Well, except how did Feynman know what exactly is familiar to that person asking questions. So he himself made some /pretty unjustified/ presumption about someone's knowledge or mental abilities...
      And he implied that he doesn't like that question, actually insulting his interlocutor.

    • @margaritasytcheva2730
      @margaritasytcheva2730 5 років тому +33

      @@fidziek The thing is, Electromagnetism is notoriously for being a very difficult topic to most people in the STEM disciplines and requires substantial prerequisite knowledge. If you go further than that (to describe the nature of forces within particles), you would be tackling Quantum Mechanics, which kills all.
      So, unless Feynam happened to know that the interviewer had a background in engineering or physics, I think it's pretty fair that Feynman can make that claim.

    • @studiousboy644
      @studiousboy644 5 років тому +12

      @@fidziek
      It's not about knowledge. The fact that he asked that question should make it clear that electromagnetism cannot be explained in terms of anything that interviewer knows. Otherwise he wouldn't have asked the question.

    • @fidziek
      @fidziek 5 років тому +1

      @@studiousboy644 only he's not asking for his own benefits, but on behalf of the viewers/listeners, and I pressume he's not one of Feynmann apprentices/students...
      i.m.H.o.

    • @fidziek
      @fidziek 5 років тому +1

      @@philipfry9436 it's not about someone's feelings, but so called personal culture (including empathy, EQ, IQ) of Great Master Feynmann - he should not humiliate anyone,
      simple as that.

  • @222ableVelo
    @222ableVelo 3 роки тому +352

    Wife to Husband: "Does this dress make me look fat?"
    Richard Feynman: "Don't worry I got this bro."

    • @freddiebauer5843
      @freddiebauer5843 3 роки тому +5

      Know when you say "make"...

    • @JohnCena-yu4mj
      @JohnCena-yu4mj 3 роки тому +22

      "it's not the dress that makes you look fat."

    • @everlastingideas8625
      @everlastingideas8625 3 роки тому +8

      If we consider the wife to have a negative charge. The charge of the husband closely depends on his answer.

    • @kindnessfirst9670
      @kindnessfirst9670 3 роки тому +2

      He was too smart to answer with anything but a "no".

    • @notablediscomfort
      @notablediscomfort 3 роки тому +8

      "Do try to understand that I haven't called you fat at any point leading up to this interaction. I clearly haven't shown that I think you're fat. I might notice it if I really look. But at this point I know I don't care. So to me, I have to say no, not at first glance. But now that you've put me in the mindset that you might be fat, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say yes, it does. Not necessarily the dress alone, unfortunately. It definitely exasperates some visual features that people see more in someone they would call fat. I'm not calling you fat. But someone else might. So if someone else seeing you as fat is the issue you care about, then yes, the dress absolutely makes you look fat. I would go as far as to say some people would call you a heckin chonker. But that's not me. I didn't want to be here in the first place. I just wanna touch your butt and watch south park with you."

  • @morbikdon5245
    @morbikdon5245 5 років тому +207

    "You have to be in some framework that you allow something to be true. Otherwise you're perpetually asking why". What a great great neuron connections.

    • @joshuarohantitchener7395
      @joshuarohantitchener7395 4 роки тому +3

      morbikdon nothing is true everything is permitted as self imposed limits dictate and as ones own internal harmony harmonizes with the harmony of others or dis harmony so to speak Mr Anderson

    • @Oldfashionedcowboybebopjazz
      @Oldfashionedcowboybebopjazz 4 роки тому +4

      The beauty of mathematics encapsulated in a single sentence

    • @Sahilbc-wj8qk
      @Sahilbc-wj8qk 4 роки тому

      @@joshuarohantitchener7395 Nothing is true?
      Then mobile phones must not work.
      Or anything.

    • @fakeemail4005
      @fakeemail4005 3 роки тому

      @@joshuarohantitchener7395 If nothing is true then the statement "nothing is true" is also false, so it shall be disregarded

  • @Parth-d5s
    @Parth-d5s 3 місяці тому +3

    This is the best video on internet 😂

  • @SnootchieBootchies27
    @SnootchieBootchies27 3 роки тому +672

    This is why children get stuck in the "why" loop. It's the question that can't be answered.

    • @wavydavy9816
      @wavydavy9816 3 роки тому +10

      If you actually keep answering their questions they soon lose interest (normally when you mention doing some research) 🙄 hopefully well before you're completely out of your depth.

    • @midnattsol6207
      @midnattsol6207 3 роки тому +71

      @@wavydavy9816 it's very healthy for children to learn that their parents knowledge has limits and to present them these limits

    • @wavydavy9816
      @wavydavy9816 3 роки тому +69

      @@midnattsol6207 Yes. This is also true. But with small chlidren, when they get stuck in the why loop, they're rarely listening to what you're actually saying, they're playing a game. You play the game by answering the questions, but you're just playing the part of the person delivering a set-up line for the child. You can tell when a child is genuinely inerested in obtaining information to answer questions, and I think the best way to help educate children these days is to demonstrate to them that they can educate themselves using the resources directly at hand. I tried to explain how lightening worked to my nephew when he was about 5 and quickly realized I _didn't know_ how lightening worked and we spent a good 20 minutes learning about it together on the computer. Job done! 👍

    • @midnattsol6207
      @midnattsol6207 3 роки тому +6

      @@wavydavy9816 Yeah, that's true also. Well done! :)

    • @timangar9771
      @timangar9771 3 роки тому +18

      @@wavydavy9816 noooo, when I was a kid I would ask my das questions for HOURS, and I was lucky enough to have a dad who was well educated and could answer a lot of them. But it always bugged me when we reached the "that's just how the universe works" point.

  • @Luisp0t
    @Luisp0t 3 роки тому +3117

    I can’t explain that magnetic attraction in terms of anything that’s familiar to you

    • @CarlosGomes-yc3nm
      @CarlosGomes-yc3nm 3 роки тому +46

      That's a good one.

    • @Cometer
      @Cometer 3 роки тому +177

      And with that thousands decided to study physics.

    • @aristotle_4532
      @aristotle_4532 3 роки тому +5

      At any level besides a gross practically useful one.

    • @ahnaffarhan8028
      @ahnaffarhan8028 3 роки тому +33

      because I don't understand in terms of anything else that's you are more familiar with.

    • @MPHOSADIKI-vu8rx
      @MPHOSADIKI-vu8rx 3 роки тому +4

      Man I love your content.

  • @fujihita2500
    @fujihita2500 4 роки тому +1014

    Interviewer: "Why must you give a long lecture on why?"
    Feynman: "So you have chosen death."

    • @devanshsingh3369
      @devanshsingh3369 4 роки тому +25

      I would've liked this comment, but it was on 69 likes and i didn't wanted to be that guy who stops another person from smiling.

    • @odyseuszkoskiniotis6266
      @odyseuszkoskiniotis6266 4 роки тому +9

      The question was indeed stupid, and he has foreseen it and he replied in a way that would completely psychologically surprise interviewer

    • @razormilkyway8444
      @razormilkyway8444 4 роки тому +1

      @@odyseuszkoskiniotis6266 what? No. I will ask the same thing.

    • @STyl888
      @STyl888 3 роки тому

      AHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAAHAHA

  • @valevisa8429
    @valevisa8429 Рік тому +2

    My father was the same.He would start with a subject,jump from that to a second one ,third one,forth one etc.,and finally after 15 minutes he will come back and explain the first one.Drove me crazy.

  • @studio48nl
    @studio48nl 5 років тому +287

    Sagan: There are no stupid questions.
    Feynman: Why?

    • @johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559
      @johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559 5 років тому +5

      stupid question: why is the earth flat

    • @studio48nl
      @studio48nl 5 років тому +1

      @@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559
      I do understand what you mean, but maybe the person is, not the question.
      According to Sagan, questions are not stupid because it's a 'method' to get information.
      If you tell the person (a child maybe), 'Earth is a sphere because of (proof)' and he/she goes 'ok', then it was not very stupid...

    • @johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559
      @johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559 5 років тому

      but that doesnt answer the question, why is earth flat?
      an incorrect fact has been forced into the question thats why its stupid.

    • @Ometecuhtli
      @Ometecuhtli 5 років тому +7

      Why is not a stupid question, and when Feynman says it is a good question he isn't patronizing, he's genuine in his response that it is difficult for him to answer it in a way that can be considered satisfactory to the interviewer. I'd have to transcribe what he says because I don't have a better way to explain it, it all depends on the reason for asking it is, whether your trying to understand forces, the way materials behave under certain circunstances, if you're interested in metallurgy, applications, curious about science, and so on.
      Sagan was talking about how as we grow up we start to take into account how we are perceived by our classmates, so the more pressure we feel the more we try to avoid questions that are considered 'stupid', and social animals that we are, we tend to ask 'safely', to supress the questions that would reveal our ignorance even if it's a perfectly good question and, as seems to be happening in the video, ask a question that we don't know if it's good or not, and not be really prepared for its answer.

    • @amellirizarry9503
      @amellirizarry9503 4 роки тому +1

      in my opinion Feynman is way more badass than Sagan👌

  • @CyclonicTuna023
    @CyclonicTuna023 3 роки тому +581

    Interviewer: Why...
    Feynman: First of all, that's incorrect.

    • @stephandalton2390
      @stephandalton2390 3 роки тому +1

      Hollering LOL!!!!!! comment of the year

    • @neithere
      @neithere 3 роки тому

      This... is... not at all what happened.....

  • @TheSatch10
    @TheSatch10 3 роки тому +45

    I'm a Mechanical Engineering student. You learn about guys like this that were geniuses and changed mankind's understanding. But what makes me smile is that he sounds just like MY professors, the good ones anyway. He's angry that I asked a good question in a stupid way and he wants me to understand what's proper and try again. I've always wondered what it would be like to be taught by professors Like Feynman but I've realized that he was human like the rest of us and that my professors were amazing like the greats before them.

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 3 роки тому

      I can tell that you never asked a good question, not even in a stupid way.

    • @cuongdang3304
      @cuongdang3304 2 роки тому

      a very interesting yet so commonly miss out by the majority, me included

  • @johnarmstrong6867
    @johnarmstrong6867 2 роки тому +16

    This is a WONDERFUL insight into Feynman's integrity and thought

    • @edithbannerman4
      @edithbannerman4 Рік тому

      @Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

  • @NagCamagoni
    @NagCamagoni 3 роки тому +772

    My mom : Why are you home this late?
    I can't explain why in any terms familiar to you.
    *shoe thrown at me*

    • @irshviralvideo
      @irshviralvideo 3 роки тому +7

      rolf !!!

    • @christy3971
      @christy3971 3 роки тому +4

      The last thing I remember was a shoe flying towards me 😂

    • @DickiMonster
      @DickiMonster 3 роки тому +3

      Primitive mom

    • @francisofthefilth8829
      @francisofthefilth8829 3 роки тому

      @@irshviralvideo Rolling on the laughing floor. My floor also laughs at me sometimes. I stopped rolling on it since that time it tried swallowing me though. Don't piss off your floor. It's friendlier when it's laughing. Much friendlier. Oh god.. so much friendlier...

  • @lizc6393
    @lizc6393 3 роки тому +935

    Feynman was just as much an outstanding philosopher as he was a scientist.

    • @fL0p
      @fL0p 3 роки тому +22

      Both philosophy and science need to be put into play if the human race wants to "know" more and more about the nature of the universe from its -obviously, human- perspective. Even religion is vital to that, sadly (for me). You could even reach to saying that pilosophy is a field of science, in some way.

    • @42ZaphodB42
      @42ZaphodB42 3 роки тому +9

      @@fL0p Philosophy is a science of thought and existence, but not really about nature.

    • @pAO29Ex
      @pAO29Ex 3 роки тому +1

      @@42ZaphodB42 that's called mathematics

    • @42ZaphodB42
      @42ZaphodB42 3 роки тому

      @@pAO29Ex maefs?

    • @jetjazz05
      @jetjazz05 3 роки тому +1

      @@fL0p Very true. Just like there is a search for a unified theory that can explain all of the universe that principle, those rules of nature govern our existence and therefore our perception.
      Humans evolved from a world following rules, equations, principles, whatever terminology, and so really the physics and the philosophy are just interpretations of existence.

  • @leftyfourguns
    @leftyfourguns 4 роки тому +892

    Basically what he's saying is that he can't answer "why" magnets repel each other because giving you a definitive answer would not be truthful. There are so many things you need to understand and theories you need to accept as true to understand "why" magnets repel each other. And that's literally what scientists spend their whole lives doing. So unless you want to be a scientist and study physics, you just need to accept the known nature of magnetism.
    And this is why I love this guy so much. He purposely went on all those tangents and drew out the "answer" so long to demonstrate the fact that such a simple question only begets more and more questions, some of which we can't answer truthfully yet. It's not meant to insult the interviewer or anyone else, but only to illustrate how amazing science is and how much more we still have to learn. People who are fascinated by everything he said here may be encouraged to further their study of science. Everyone else will just go, "oh...okay..." and quickly accept that magnets repel each other because it's cool and sciency.

    • @AppleOfThineEye
      @AppleOfThineEye 4 роки тому +16

      @Hearing.Chanting Remembering.Krsna Go fuck yourself.

    • @successfulatpeace
      @successfulatpeace 4 роки тому +1

      Beautifully said.

    • @AppleOfThineEye
      @AppleOfThineEye 4 роки тому +11

      @Hearing.Chanting Remembering.Krsna Again, go fuck yourself.

    • @leftyfourguns
      @leftyfourguns 4 роки тому +9

      @TomG Gabin If you don't want to learn the science yourself (which takes a lot longer than a 10 minute UA-cam video can accomplish) then yes, you just need to trust the people who've dedicated their entire lives to it. If you chose to be both ignorant and skeptical, then that's on you and no one is under any obligation to cater to you.

    • @AppleOfThineEye
      @AppleOfThineEye 4 роки тому +5

      @Hearing.Chanting Remembering.Krsna Go fuck yourself.

  • @Dan-rd8dr
    @Dan-rd8dr Рік тому +1

    that's just brillian - I'll be sending this video to everybody who asks me complex stuff that I cannot explain in simple words

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 Рік тому

      And most of them will notice that you are a low EQ person who didn't notice just how tired Feynman was. ;-)

  • @shortcutDJ
    @shortcutDJ 8 років тому +1585

    He truly was a fine man.

  • @dorianphilotheates3769
    @dorianphilotheates3769 6 років тому +123

    Me: Good morning, Professor Feynman, how are you today?
    R.F.: Well...

  • @LazerC4
    @LazerC4 7 років тому +4163

    Nevermind bro, I will just google it

    • @1996Pinocchio
      @1996Pinocchio 6 років тому +117

      LazerC4 So, tell me when you have found a satisfying answer using google.

    • @liveinshyam
      @liveinshyam 6 років тому +181

      Legend says LazerC4 is still searching for an answer on google could not find a satisfying one except one of the results which is this video itself

    • @lawrencejohnson3259
      @lawrencejohnson3259 6 років тому +3

      Dheeraj V.S. LOL

    • @darthvader-ey4xw
      @darthvader-ey4xw 6 років тому +8

      Snowflake

    • @JeanMarcGarin
      @JeanMarcGarin 6 років тому +22

      He's not really a "bro", you know...

  • @conscience580
    @conscience580 2 роки тому +18

    This is the best answer to a 'why' question i have ever seen. His final answer at the end is humbling - "I really can't do a good job, any job, in terms of explaining it in terms of something else that you are more familiar with, because i don't understand it in terms of anything else you are more familiar with"

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 2 роки тому +1

      There was no why in the question at 0:10. You simply didn't listen to it. ;-)
      Here is how you answer why questions in science:
      Why is the sky blue? Because of Rayleigh scattering.
      Don't make a fool of yourself, my friend. It's bad enough that Feynman did that, already.

    • @Gigasimo456
      @Gigasimo456 2 роки тому +2

      ​@@schmetterling4477 Learn english then rewatch the video, i guess. The first two questions did not make sense.
      My thoughts:
      "what's the feeling" - you're feeling the force, like any other thing you can feel with your body... was that really the question you wanted to ask?
      "there's something there" - there's nothing between them, it's obvious - that can't be what you actually want to know - you surely won't be satisfied by that.
      "what's going on" - for me it's already equivalent to asking "why", but Feynman took it literally.
      "why" - the question.
      And about your example ("why is the sky blue")... So if someone who does not know anything about Physics asks you that question, do you think that saying "it's Rayleigh Scattering" mean anything to him? Short answer is no, it's just a name - so congratulations, you did not answer his question. Be prepared for the following "what is Rayleigh Scattering" and then "why does it happen". Which is the whole point Feynman is making in this video.
      Again, learn english and then rewatch the video.

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 2 роки тому

      @@Gigasimo456 Yes, that was a huge pile of bullshit. I understood the actual question at 0:10 just fine. I can also answer it nicely. It's one of the deepest questions that one can ask and it has one of the most profound answers. If you don't understand that, then you simply don't know anything about modern physics. Which you don't. ;-)
      Why does what happen? Rayleigh scattering? Because you are not superman and you don't have x-ray vision, kid. Your eyes can only see wavelengths of visible light that are much longer than the size of air molecules. ;-)
      See how easy it is to make a fool of yourself. Next time... don't. ;-)

    • @barneymiller5488
      @barneymiller5488 2 роки тому +1

      @@schmetterling4477 Feynman DID answer the question! It's YOU who won't answer the question "Do you love me?" Why do you torture me like this Ling! I can't take it!!!

    • @conscience580
      @conscience580 2 роки тому

      @@schmetterling4477 Well, making the same mistake as Feynman can't be that bad :) Although in this case, there was no mistake: the 'why' actually came at 0:38

  • @Rbx98Cp
    @Rbx98Cp 2 роки тому +3093

    Richard actually forgot why magnets repulse, so he came up with the most elaborate distraction of an explanation to make you forget that you'd even asked.

    • @stefanmenzel263
      @stefanmenzel263 2 роки тому +39

      😉😅😀😃😃😄😆😆😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣

    • @tyrannde6392
      @tyrannde6392 2 роки тому +66

      @@SkepticMaestro he did answered though

    • @hillaryclinton1314
      @hillaryclinton1314 2 роки тому +49

      Actually, explaining repulsion is easy ..explaining attraction..like gravity.. is very very hard

    • @johndabate644
      @johndabate644 2 роки тому +58

      He should have been a politician.

    • @deviklovecraft3835
      @deviklovecraft3835 2 роки тому +1

      Hah 🤣

  • @Jybgame
    @Jybgame 4 роки тому +79

    Always loved this clip. The quintessential Feynman. He doesn't want to just answer questions. He wants you to truly understand the nuance of the answer. Forever the teacher. The breaking down of answers so that he's ready to engage you at any level.

    • @52baldingindianjanitor72
      @52baldingindianjanitor72 3 роки тому +6

      Really? I didn't even know this guy was famous, thought he was just a crack addict.

    • @paoloritter315
      @paoloritter315 3 роки тому

      Genious

    • @shauna1609
      @shauna1609 3 роки тому

      I agree!! I already knew he was about to speak his mind, Period.

    • @jollydove6314
      @jollydove6314 3 роки тому

      What the fuck are you talking about? Feynman does not understand magnets!

  • @cowboyuniverse7258
    @cowboyuniverse7258 3 роки тому +202

    This was the reason maths was soooo hard when I was younger. The teacher explain the concepts as if it was an already understood concept like many stem teachers in secondary education. Same goes for learning a new language

    • @orangeziggy348
      @orangeziggy348 3 роки тому +1

      Exactly! Well said.

    • @jamestrujillo5195
      @jamestrujillo5195 2 роки тому

      hahaha

    • @TheFreak111
      @TheFreak111 2 роки тому +7

      It's a really hard thing to do, to step back to a certain level of knowledge which may be a point where you were many years ago, and explain from there.

    • @zarmadyl5038
      @zarmadyl5038 2 роки тому +7

      @@TheFreak111 It's not really an ascension in knowledge but rather just simply forgotten. I might be able to solve some math equations but wouldn't be able to explain anything, I can just say this goes there and you do this and then this one here will be added here. This will become a game of memorization, to remember what goes where. And could still be used for other similar equations. But ''why'' needs more explaination. And not being able could be the lack of knowledge or simply forgotten it.
      I haven't touched pythagorean theorem. I remember understanding it but I have actually at this moment forgotten it and can't explain anything. But with a little review I could recieve that knowledge back.

    • @BlookbugIV
      @BlookbugIV 2 роки тому +6

      That’s simply bad teachers. Good teachers necessarily have a sense of things from a pupils perspective.

  • @daibonehead
    @daibonehead 2 роки тому +1

    A simple question that results in such an elaborate series of other questions.
    Simple in its own genius to elicit a shockwave of analysis from a recognised genius.

  • @Vatsek
    @Vatsek 6 років тому +1710

    It would be a very bad idea to ask him what day is today.

    • @RogerBarraud
      @RogerBarraud 6 років тому +68

      +Vatsek.
      True.
      Necromancy is a Bad Idea.

    • @strategen9124
      @strategen9124 6 років тому +21

      Vatsek why? You will get knowledge from a intellectual man

    • @davidsiatatgaming
      @davidsiatatgaming 6 років тому +22

      it would actually be a very good idea :)

    • @mattzx003
      @mattzx003 6 років тому +36

      The singularly most important reason as to why it would be a poor choice to ask Richard Feynman what day it is today is because the guy is fucking dead. Resultantly, it would be extraordinarily difficult for him to respond to you, let alone provide you with an accurate answer.
      Retrospectively, it would have been just as easy (or perhaps significantly easier) to have conveyed that exact same message with just 5 words rather than 50

    • @Schmidtelpunkt
      @Schmidtelpunkt 6 років тому +10

      "Resultantly, it would be extraordinarily difficult for him to respond to you, let alone provide you with an accurate answer."
      And yet would there be an answer, it would last four minutes and make you feel like an idiot for not wording the question better.

  • @scottchappel1907
    @scottchappel1907 3 роки тому +242

    The interviewer is feeling how I felt as a kid when I asked the teacher, "can I go to the bathroom"....

    • @raisin4406
      @raisin4406 3 роки тому +33

      I don't know, CAN you?

    • @Asdayasman
      @Asdayasman 3 роки тому +3

      @@raisin4406 Fuck you that's EXACTLY what I wanted to comment.

  • @TheNewTravel
    @TheNewTravel 6 років тому +449

    The quality of your questions determine the quality of your answers

    • @zigravos
      @zigravos 5 років тому +25

      this exchange sort of disproves that does it not ?

    • @gon_trek2481
      @gon_trek2481 5 років тому +5

      @@zigravos Only because it was a teaching on the matter of asking questions.. the guy wasnt answering the question (he was indirectly), he was making a point about knowledge

    • @Fundracar74
      @Fundracar74 5 років тому +2

      @@gon_trek2481 Which has nothing to do with the quality of the question, because said question is not complicated at all (altough it could have been ). So it disproves the initial statement indeed.

    • @gon_trek2481
      @gon_trek2481 5 років тому +1

      @@Fundracar74 mmmm right but that explanation didnt emerge because the question hinted at it, only because the speaker felt like dropping knowledge bombs... so most of the time if the speaker isnt really oriented to teaching you just answering your question, the less contextualized the question the more general (worse) the answer will likely be.. it seems obvious really

    • @dalesmith4609
      @dalesmith4609 5 років тому

      garbage in, garbage out

  • @ShoeibShargo
    @ShoeibShargo 2 роки тому +7

    "No Aunt Minnie were harmed in the making of this video."

  • @lewisburton1852
    @lewisburton1852 5 років тому +1052

    Imagine being his son and asking him where do babies come from.

    • @deidara_8598
      @deidara_8598 5 років тому +105

      He'll have you sit there for hours while he explains the entire history of life on earth and the details of child birth on a cellular level.

    • @dionlindsay2
      @dionlindsay2 5 років тому +8

      @@deidara_8598 I bet he won't if the son stops asking why.

    • @Exosfear13
      @Exosfear13 5 років тому +21

      why are babies made.

    • @robertdale001
      @robertdale001 5 років тому +1

      hilarious!

    • @markgigiel2722
      @markgigiel2722 4 роки тому +29

      @@Exosfear13 Hormones and stupidity.

  • @LukeFaulkner
    @LukeFaulkner 6 років тому +420

    I found his discourse on why more interesting than the question that provoked it.

    • @linlin20x53
      @linlin20x53 6 років тому +1

      I was thinking that.

    • @Johnny-sj9sj
      @Johnny-sj9sj 5 років тому +2

      And then he goes and solves the mystery of the shuttle’s launch disaster - in about five minutes! And he was a brilliant drummer and lock picker. What’s there not to like?

    • @meesalikeu
      @meesalikeu 5 років тому +2

      sweet jesus thank god you said, “i found his discourse ....” instead of, “i feel like....”

    • @margaritasytcheva2730
      @margaritasytcheva2730 5 років тому

      That's fair.

    • @doumkatekz
      @doumkatekz 5 років тому

      @@Johnny-sj9sj Orange juice!

  • @lemonade2473
    @lemonade2473 5 років тому +504

    I envy people who can maintain a train of thought. Ooh a squirrel 🐿

  • @UnknownMFe
    @UnknownMFe Рік тому +2

    He didn't just answer the raw question. He expanded my knowledge any provided me with entertainment. This is a great man

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 Рік тому

      So what was the question the interviewer wanted to get answered? ;-)

    • @UnknownMFe
      @UnknownMFe Рік тому +1

      ​@@schmetterling4477The interviewer asked why the magnets repel eachother

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 Рік тому +1

      @@UnknownMFe Listen to the question at the ten second mark, again: "What is the feeling between the two magnets?". It's not a why question but a what question. It doesn't ask about the mechanism inside the magnets that causes the magnetic field but it asks directly about the nature of the magnetic field itself. Why would the interviewer ask such a question? Because Feynman had received the Nobel Prize in physics for illuminating the mathematical structure of the theory of the field. Feynman didn't spend a waking second in his life on the question of how permanent magnetism works, as far as I know. That's a completely different and unrelated question to which no easy answer exists. What the field is, however, that much more fundamental question can be answered easily and it was Feynman's field of work.

  • @hariprasadramakrishnan6241
    @hariprasadramakrishnan6241 3 роки тому +70

    He ended up explaining the whole thing in sooper detail, gave a lecture on 'why' and then said he couldn't do justice to 'why' question. Just pure genius man this guy is...

    • @gunnarMyTube
      @gunnarMyTube 2 роки тому +6

      A deeper explanation requires the listener has deep knowledge in math and physics to be able to comprehend.

    • @connor828
      @connor828 2 роки тому

      *souper V*;

  • @bluejay6205
    @bluejay6205 3 роки тому +141

    I need to start answering my kids’ questions in this manner

    • @huskiehuskerson5300
      @huskiehuskerson5300 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah

    • @Wabbelpaddel
      @Wabbelpaddel 3 роки тому +1

      Unless you want future morons, yes, this is the bare minimum.

    • @kennybeans6115
      @kennybeans6115 2 роки тому +1

      I betcha they’ll regulate their rate of questioning. That’s for sure. Brilliant.

  • @The_1_One_1
    @The_1_One_1 5 місяців тому +2

    He was an exceptional and really memorable man😂😂😂

  • @4jonah
    @4jonah 4 роки тому +1591

    3rd grade Teacher to Feynman on an English test: "What color was the balloon?"
    "What do you mean by what color? Color is a refractive index of light. Color is an illusion. You might as well ask me why sugar is sweet and salt is salty. That's a great question, let me explain. But first, tell you where taste actually comes from. It's an electro-neurological stimulus...."
    *5 pages later*
    "Anyway, I can't tell you what color it was because you don't know anything."

    • @drkarimalsalihi8785
      @drkarimalsalihi8785 4 роки тому +49

      Probably the best comment in this whole comment section

    • @oleole3608
      @oleole3608 4 роки тому +14

      Brilliant, rofl.

    • @cristianmartinez9091
      @cristianmartinez9091 4 роки тому +9

      This is why scientists need to be truly educated, meaning actually having the ability to think. And again, meaning that they become well versed in philosophy or at least epistemology. The nihilistic and amateurish conclusion that we know nothing is laughable at best.

    • @potusumanbibingka
      @potusumanbibingka 4 роки тому +4

      indead. 😂

    • @alexanderb6278
      @alexanderb6278 4 роки тому +23

      @@cristianmartinez9091 You're spouting sweet nothings. You claim that every scientist needs a background in philosophy because of... What? A physicist's long-winded response to an inane question? The fact he hurt your feelings by saying that you know nothing? Feynman wasn't perfect, but he was definitely not an ivory tower academic.

  • @russellbrown3526
    @russellbrown3526 2 роки тому +62

    I wasn't "feeling so good", but this put a big smile on my face. :)

  • @siddhantkabra
    @siddhantkabra 3 роки тому +57

    In this 7 min 33 sec, I learnt to Love Richard Feynman ! ❣️😍

    • @ZeHoSmusician
      @ZeHoSmusician 3 роки тому +1

      And also never to ask a 'why' question! XD

    • @atikshagarwal5147
      @atikshagarwal5147 2 роки тому

      @@ZeHoSmusician bhai coaching sir se inorganic chemistry mein poocha why? That's when I learnt😂😂

  • @UmesShrestha
    @UmesShrestha 3 роки тому +22

    This is so awesome in so many levels and has made me re-think on the concepts of teaching and learning, on direct instructions and discovery learning. When the learner is just a novice, all you can give to the learner is abstractions/ideas which the learner must take it for granted and build on it. This is an excellent video for teachers to share and have conversations around how to help students develop knowledge and skills.

  • @MasthaX
    @MasthaX 2 роки тому +448

    Feynman is an absolute legend when it comes to knowledge, and sharing that knowledge with others on multiple levels.

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 2 роки тому +5

      And right here that legend collapses. :-)

    • @riseandshinemrfriman5925
      @riseandshinemrfriman5925 2 роки тому +4

      He was an arrogant prick tho :P

    • @barneymiller5488
      @barneymiller5488 2 роки тому +2

      @@schmetterling4477 How so? I found this answer extremely enlightening. You didn't? WHY not? haha!!

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 2 роки тому

      @@barneymiller5488 I doubt that you even listened to it. I will give you attention, anyway. ;-)

    • @barneymiller5488
      @barneymiller5488 2 роки тому +3

      @@schmetterling4477 Of course you'll give me your attention. Attention seems to be all you care about. Love that dopamine rush when you see people disagree with you, eh? I did listen to it. I found the entire piece fascinating. I'm now going to read his books. I know he's become controversial in recent years. Some "sexism" accusations. Is that your beef? I'm just trying to see why you're obsessed with this clip. Why are you drawn to this clip but repelled by his answer? Why. WHY. WHY!!!! ;)

  • @John-ci8yk
    @John-ci8yk 2 роки тому

    With 12,000 comments I'm sure whatever I had to say was already said. So I'm just going to go with thank you for the time and effort you put into this video, thumbs up.

  • @anusuyabhattacharyya9580
    @anusuyabhattacharyya9580 4 роки тому +23

    I sympathize deeply with his mother. Most mothers only have to endure 2 years of the "WHY" questions phase, but Feynman NEVER GREW OUT OF IT!!

    • @Samgurney88
      @Samgurney88 4 роки тому +1

      Somehow I doubt he went to his mother if he didn't know the answer to a physics question...

  • @ernestomora9955
    @ernestomora9955 3 роки тому +649

    I think Dr Feinman was the only person on human history capable of answering satisfactorily to children's questions.

    • @MJ123and5
      @MJ123and5 3 роки тому +4

      I dont understand how this is a childish question, that is if you are referring to this question

    • @ernestomora9955
      @ernestomora9955 3 роки тому +48

      ​@@MJ123and5 I didn't mean to say that. Of course, the interviewer's question was by no means a childish one. But listening to Dr Feinman astonishing ability for answering it I can see that he must have been capable to answer satisfactorily to children questions, which are very often much more complex than most people believe. Remember that children are used to make not only a single question, but a series of questions depending on what their parents answer to them, and in many cases adults end giving up because they have no idea about what to answer to them.

    • @hero9402
      @hero9402 3 роки тому +2

      Yeah I agree

    • @____uncompetative
      @____uncompetative 3 роки тому +9

      @@ernestomora9955 "Why is the sky blue?"
      That is a fun one.

    • @Josh-mu7qy
      @Josh-mu7qy 3 роки тому +6

      Feyman gets most of his (well deserved) credit for physics, but he really was a teaching pioneer. He understood that children learn differently and that a one-size-fits-all approach was a bad idea for the classroom because you'd always leave some kids out.

  • @upsidedownChad
    @upsidedownChad 3 роки тому +102

    He somehow answered his question better than anyone else by explaining why he can't answer the question

    • @zzthedon4k
      @zzthedon4k 3 роки тому +2

      no he didn't. if he followed up his 7 minute tirade about the nature of the word 'why' with an acceptable answer (for the interviewer) then it would've been fine. but as this video shows anyway, he just leaves the interviewer with the same question, still unanswered.

    • @J.RomeroLuna
      @J.RomeroLuna 7 місяців тому

      ​@@zzthedon4k I know it's been years since your comment, but how is from 5:00 to 6:00 minutes not an answer to the question? I feel like that's an acceptable answer, but maybe I don't understand what you mean

  • @jianhushi215
    @jianhushi215 Рік тому +40

    An ordinary man is eager to tell you what he knows. An extraordinary man goes to great lengths to tell you what he doesn't know.
    By the time he is done, you know 10x more than what you asked for.

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 Рік тому +2

      But you didn't get your question answered, though. You just got bullshit about rubber. ;-)

    • @santiagoo.8958
      @santiagoo.8958 Рік тому +1

      ​@@schmetterling4477how would you answer that question?

  • @JaydenLawson
    @JaydenLawson 5 років тому +247

    Imagine a little kid asking “why” questions to this guy

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 5 років тому +23

      The kid would suffer schizophrenic paranoia even at the thought of this scientist. xD

    • @Ometecuhtli
      @Ometecuhtli 5 років тому +12

      In fact those little kids grew up to be one a computer engineer and another a photographer.

    • @jusalbanicae184
      @jusalbanicae184 5 років тому +13

      Why do say 'little' kid? Isn't a kid by definition little? And what is little? How do you measure it? Is there a general length for a person to be qualified as little? If so, who and how and why did they come up with that requirement?

    • @giovannip8600
      @giovannip8600 5 років тому +5

      @@jusalbanicae184 clearly because one (meter) is a low number although there's infinite amount of decimal numbers, but we define the unit so really we could also say the density is low for example a body except for the head would stay afloat in water. What was the question again?
      Lol

    • @cristiangamboa2037
      @cristiangamboa2037 5 років тому +9

      That would be the luckiest kid in the world, who has Richard Feynman to answer his questions.

  • @MSI2k
    @MSI2k 3 роки тому +86

    This man was a gem! How I wish he was alive today

    • @Gerald0613
      @Gerald0613 2 роки тому

      Hol up he died?

    • @TheColonyRed
      @TheColonyRed 2 роки тому +2

      why?

    • @MSI2k
      @MSI2k 2 роки тому +5

      Feynman has been dead since 1988 😢

    • @Roger__Wilco
      @Roger__Wilco 2 роки тому +3

      @@TheColonyRed He slipped on some ice :D

    • @titanproductions3628
      @titanproductions3628 2 роки тому +1

      @@MSI2k he's a clown, he couldn't answer a single question without being argumentative.

  • @SarahFimm
    @SarahFimm 7 років тому +68

    "Listen to my question."

    • @thesimpleeastern
      @thesimpleeastern 5 років тому +3

      I want to say this everytime when someone starts answering me without listening me properly. But too bad you can't say this phrase without offending people.

    • @timprescott4634
      @timprescott4634 5 років тому +1

      ambrish sinha You simply need to rephrase it in a more intelligent, less confrontational manner...

  • @cyrilfields9139
    @cyrilfields9139 4 дні тому

    Man I was just trying to look up how to dry clean an article of clothing at home, but I'm so glad I ended up here

  • @feminist098
    @feminist098 4 роки тому +395

    This is me in oral exam when I don't know the answers

  • @zlcoolboy
    @zlcoolboy 2 роки тому +41

    I've heard of him, but I had no idea I would be such huge fan of him from one video. The title of the video is perfect.

  • @joaooscar3078
    @joaooscar3078 3 роки тому +133

    "the deeper the thing is, the more interesting it is" Well Mr. Feynman, you do have a point there

    • @mechwa28
      @mechwa28 3 роки тому +1

      I see what you did there. Lol

    • @greatgooglymoogly3153
      @greatgooglymoogly3153 2 роки тому +5

      thats what she said

    • @atikshagarwal5147
      @atikshagarwal5147 2 роки тому +1

      @@greatgooglymoogly3153 fucking awesome 😂😂 just think how would Dwight respond to this😂😂

  • @kurtmcfc1629
    @kurtmcfc1629 Рік тому

    nice of him to explain every conversation with my niece.. Why is the most fundemental question we humans have.