I am Arline's niece. My father, Jules, was her brother. Thank you for your reading. I have many stories to share....You are reading to a piece of my history. 💕
2:44 God, when he said "sweetheart" his voice just got so tight and you can tell for the rest of the letter he's working so hard to keep it together and to the testament of his skill, he does, but the little breaks in his voice here and there were just powerful.
"you dead are so much better than everyone else alive" That line hit me so hard. All the letter in general. As someone who lost their life partner 5 years ago, sometimes basking in the pain of his absence feels like honoring his memory. Even if I am now happy in general and in relationship with a beautiful person, and moving on as such, feels like betraying how much he meant to me. This letter perfectly describes what it feels like to loose the love of your life.
I think why this letter is particularly moving is that Richard Feynman suffered no fools and was brutally honest. In his rational mind he knows that she will never read this and that it is nonsensical to write.....but he does it anyway.
@@patinho5589 True, experts in science are not necessarily experts about all facets of life. Interesting contrast I thought. It is a beautifully written letter none the less. It touches my heart so very much.
He would find another. Many years later. One faild marriage that lasted only a handfull of years. And one that would last for over two decades, untill the day he died. It is one of the best parts of this letter. The pain in time healed and he loved another as deeply has his first.
I was stunned when I read this letter earlier today. It's very rarely that any piece of writing makes me come that close to crying, let alone a letter only a few paragraphs long. I think what affects me most is managing to see a glimmer of how much a person can love another person. It's so rarely that I see anyone manage to convey that in words, convey it so well that I myself feel it, I myself feel what it might be like to be loved that much or to love someone that much.
It's funny now whenever I think of Richard Feynman....I don't think of his scientific achievements......I think of this beautifully written letter. So moving...
Given that I found this shortly after watching Himesh Patel reading a letter to Richard Branson regarding service on Virgin Flight, I too thought it was "Airline", but after listening to the salutation, re-checked 😄
I first read the title as Richard Feynman to “airline”, and I was curious what he would be writing to an airline. After a few sentences, I realized this was all about his love.
That was phenomenal, but I didn't have my glasses on when I started it and spent two minutes thinking it was Feynman to AIRLINE. This made the first two minutes a little confusing.
Good reading of a great man. Also, though, notice that there are almost no "reply" to any of the comments here. I wonder what factor(s) account(s) for this, most comment sections are filled with agreements and retorts. Curious.
The performance here is stunning. The letter is brilliant. It is the anniversary of a loss for me so the experience was especially moving. Feynman was a great scientist. He tested 125 on an IQ test which bothered a few people - but not him. One of his admirers in his profession suggested that he might be a verbal moron, which would be fine, because that stuff was beside the point. This letter was not written by a verbal moron. I just heard Cumberbatch recite: letter from Kurt Vonnegut to a little man explaining how important, gifted and in demand Vonnegut is (or was). Feynman is a much better writer than Vonnegut, though that is hardly Cumberbacth's fault.. So, either there was a spark in him that the IQ test didn't capture or, Feynman squeezed more value out of those 125 points than any human being before or since.
IQ tests were developed to predict how someone would do in school. They don't measure intelligence, per se. And in addition, many people think there are several different types of intelligence, which are not all measured by IQ tests.
I mean I love the words written and spoken, it truly is a love letter. I can't help but feel that if Richard sealed the letter and never opened it, then perhaps it should have remained so. Just my opinion.
our grief is our own. and "Fantasy Always Beats Reality" . . . except for that being real thing. I don't envy a "new love" trying to compete with their partner's romantic ghost of years gone by. It is generally such a pleasure when Richard's mind invites ours along for an eye opening stroll, so it felt almost disheartening to hear him seeming to fall for the antithetical love trap. It is irrational, but tempting, to imagine that permitting one's torn soul to begin healing from lost love is somehow dishonoring or disloyal to what was. . . and to what is. So, after hearing his bittersweet yearnings, I was pleased to learn his tragic loss was actually only 16 months old, and that he did go on to love again (even if it ended in divorce) " He proposed to her by mail from Rio de Janeiro, and they married in Boise, Idaho, on June 28, 1952, shortly after he returned [from Brazil]. They frequently quarreled and she was frightened by his violent temper.. . They separated on May 20, 1956. . . . The divorce became final on May 5, 1958.
Came into this video without context and thought he's so eccentric for talking about his wife dying in a letter to his wife. And then I got to the end. Fuck that hit hard.
This letter read by the actor Oscar was written by Feynman himself to his first wife and his childhood sweetheart Arline. So yup its the same chap. The quantum physicist.
lol ijust didnt get the first few seconds.. as i read .. airline instead of arline... so i went in thinking it was a complaintsletter to an airline. ..
The point of the channel is that it shows actors reading entertaining/interesting letters from famous people. Richard Feynman was a very well-known/liked physicist and this was a moving letter. Oscar Isaac is an actor who was asked to read the letter for dramatic purposes.
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"You dead are so much better than anyone else alive"
This line is enough to describe the beauty of memories❤❤
“You dead are so much better than anyone else alive.”
Oof, what a punch in the gut.
I am Arline's niece. My father, Jules, was her brother. Thank you for your reading. I have many stories to share....You are reading to a piece of my history. 💕
Would love to hear your stories :)
@@bobaxes9807 as would I
Please share your story :)
Do please record them or write them down.
How wonderful for you to have this testament to her Dear Love...Lovely.
This letter was written in 1947, but nobody knew it existed until it was found in his papers after his own passing in 1988.
2:44 God, when he said "sweetheart" his voice just got so tight and you can tell for the rest of the letter he's working so hard to keep it together and to the testament of his skill, he does, but the little breaks in his voice here and there were just powerful.
This letter made me miss my dead wife I never had.
Feynman is a legend.
"you dead are so much better than everyone else alive"
That line hit me so hard. All the letter in general. As someone who lost their life partner 5 years ago, sometimes basking in the pain of his absence feels like honoring his memory. Even if I am now happy in general and in relationship with a beautiful person, and moving on as such, feels like betraying how much he meant to me. This letter perfectly describes what it feels like to loose the love of your life.
I think why this letter is particularly moving is that Richard Feynman suffered no fools and was brutally honest. In his rational mind he knows that she will never read this and that it is nonsensical to write.....but he does it anyway.
Well - he didn’t know it all about human psychology or what love is, or why he wanted the things he writes about in this letter.
I think.
@@patinho5589 True, experts in science are not necessarily experts about all facets of life. Interesting contrast I thought. It is a beautifully written letter none the less. It touches my heart so very much.
My brother was a critical thinker and despite his beliefs, I feel like if heaven doesn't exist, scientists will make a version of it.
@@ineedmyhat How eloquently put! I think so too!
I can hear oscar isaac voice my entire life if he read like this his voice is awesome..
That was a better letter. Oscar Isaac to me, seemed like he was holding back some tears.
Oh for sure.
If I were a method actor and needed to bring on some tears, this letter could probably do it!
Yeap... it got to him. Hit him squarely in the feels.
Honestly I started getting tearing up 😢😢😢
There is nothing more beautiful and strong on this planet, than a man devoted to one woman for the entirety. Love you Richard.
He would find another. Many years later.
One faild marriage that lasted only a handfull of years.
And one that would last for over two decades, untill the day he died.
It is one of the best parts of this letter. The pain in time healed and he loved another as deeply has his first.
I was stunned when I read this letter earlier today. It's very rarely that any piece of writing makes me come that close to crying, let alone a letter only a few paragraphs long. I think what affects me most is managing to see a glimmer of how much a person can love another person. It's so rarely that I see anyone manage to convey that in words, convey it so well that I myself feel it, I myself feel what it might be like to be loved that much or to love someone that much.
Beautiful sentiments. Heartbreaking. If I ever am loved like that, then I have succeeded in life.
he was really about to cry :(( this was so beautiful, a great letter by a great man read back to life by yet another great man
I just watched this for the third time. This time I almost didn't sob like a baby
4th time. Still a weepy baby.
Just watched again only got a little misty this time! Progress! But seriously it's just so beautiful.
@@898cookie5417gurlits been so long hav u watched it recently
Oh this affected him...it was beautiful to see how it affected him as he read it oh so perfectly!
I’m so thankful I too have a wife I love as much as this.
ok so it wasn't just me, he was indeed about to cry at the end!
Wonderful and honest. What a man Richard Feynman was, and so for Oscar Isaac
So beautiful, I'm crying
Me too!
Yup!
This, people, is what spirituality is like for scientists. We don't lack it. We just have it so it makes sense.
It's funny now whenever I think of Richard Feynman....I don't think of his scientific achievements......I think of this beautifully written letter. So moving...
This letter left me stunned in the best way.
One of the best letters ever.So romantic and heartbreaking.
I love his voice
Some if the most visceral emotions ever to be committed to writing.
Love is a force that transcends time and space
Beautiful and read with such passion ... simple passion. Beautiful ... I'm in tears.
Physicists tell the best love story
It was true. - Julie Greenbaum Levine
Fuck. I'm crying.
I think this is one of the most beautiful videos I've seen on UA-cam
Feynman is so much full of life.
I love this man
We all dream of loving and being loved that way.
This is so touching
Well played. Awesome acting.
One of the great true love stories of the 20th century.
See the movie with Matthew Broderick as the young Feynman. It's better if you read the memoirs first.
@@JohnDlugosz I saw it in theaters. Yes.
Love is a gift we give ourselves.
I like the to think that when Oscar got a little bit choked up at the end, it was genuine and not deliberate.
He has such beautiful eyes 💗
My son has died suddenly...2 months ago at 36...nobody gets me and tells me to move on....i wasn't able to say goodbye so i just grieve
I don't know who you are. But I hug you.
@@caroly1993 thanks honey...a big hug to you too.
..lost my son and my heart has broken into a million pieces
I can't begin to know what that must be like. Sending love.
@@avisian8063 thank you.
So sweet of you
Write them a letter
crying. sobbing.
Wow, amazing, a devastating letter. I want to cry. T-T
I admit it, I thought it said Richard Feynman to airline. That’s a damn strange customer complaint letter.....
Haha! Glad I wasn't the only one...
me too . . . at first I supposed he was aggressively buttering up his customer care agent B-)
Given that I found this shortly after watching Himesh Patel reading a letter to Richard Branson regarding service on Virgin Flight, I too thought it was "Airline", but after listening to the salutation, re-checked 😄
Haha. I did too. Colour me surprised at the opening of the letter. "I adore you" You wot, mate?
@@advocaterishitamall As did I. And, I am ashamed to admit, I was thoroughly disappointed when this turned out not to be the case.
Thank you so made me cry was beautiful
IM CRYING.
Wow! He turned into Richard. Oscar, 👏 bravo
Beautiful 🥺
I’ve always considered Richard Feynman the sexiest man, dead or alive.
I'm crying yet again.
Life is beautiful and hard. Love is life.
So incredibly beautiful
So moving
So beautiful to hear his feelings towards his wife.
Um…I misread the title and thought this was going to be a letter to an airline. I think the reality here was significantly better.
I did exactly the same thing, I was waiting for a turn.
This is heartbreaking...
im literally crying
AstaCHF you’re not literally crying. You’re just crying.
Me too 😢
I first read the title as Richard Feynman to “airline”, and I was curious what he would be writing to an airline.
After a few sentences, I realized this was all about his love.
Bloody hell. This should come with a warning.
That was phenomenal, but I didn't have my glasses on when I started it and spent two minutes thinking it was Feynman to AIRLINE. This made the first two minutes a little confusing.
Me too :)
Me too,
I cried
I loved the man's approach to science, but it was the way he lived his life.
He’s so beautiful
oh my gosh im sobbing
touched
Very moving…
Who clicks a thumbs down to such a moving letter??
I misread the title and thought it was a letter to an airline. I was confused.
Yeah, at first I thought he was mocking an airline for poor service.
I don't know your new address
Good reading of a great man.
Also, though, notice that there are almost no "reply" to any of the comments here. I wonder what factor(s) account(s) for this, most comment sections are filled with agreements and retorts. Curious.
Wow....just wow.
Hot damn that got me right in the feels.
I can't be the only one who read this as Richard Feynman to Airline [like Lufthansa etc]
I mis-read the title as "airline", so the content was a bit of a surprise. I'm better with Feynman diagrams. Arguably.
I thought this was a letter to an Airline. Best I get to the opticians.
What is going on in someone's head that they give this a thumbs down?
Sublime
The performance here is stunning. The letter is brilliant. It is the anniversary of a loss for me so the experience was especially moving.
Feynman was a great scientist. He tested 125 on an IQ test which bothered a few people - but not him. One of his admirers in his profession suggested that he might be a verbal moron, which would be fine, because that stuff was beside the point.
This letter was not written by a verbal moron. I just heard Cumberbatch recite: letter from Kurt Vonnegut to a little man explaining how important, gifted and in demand Vonnegut is (or was). Feynman is a much better writer than Vonnegut, though that is hardly Cumberbacth's fault..
So, either there was a spark in him that the IQ test didn't capture or, Feynman squeezed more value out of those 125 points than any human being before or since.
Just goes to show IQ tests are hugely subjective and essentially meaningless.
IQ tests were developed to predict how someone would do in school. They don't measure intelligence, per se. And in addition, many people think there are several different types of intelligence, which are not all measured by IQ tests.
I misread the title and thought he was writing to an airline
I mean I love the words written and spoken, it truly is a love letter. I can't help but feel that if Richard sealed the letter and never opened it, then perhaps it should have remained so. Just my opinion.
When they found the letter, it had been folded and refilled from him having carried it and read it so much.
our grief is our own. and "Fantasy Always Beats Reality" . . . except for that being real thing.
I don't envy a "new love" trying to compete with their partner's romantic ghost of years gone by.
It is generally such a pleasure when Richard's mind invites ours along for an eye opening stroll,
so it felt almost disheartening to hear him seeming to fall for the antithetical love trap.
It is irrational, but tempting, to imagine that permitting one's torn soul to begin healing
from lost love is somehow dishonoring or disloyal to what was. . . and to what is.
So, after hearing his bittersweet yearnings, I was pleased to learn his tragic loss was actually only 16 months old, and that he did go on to love again (even if it ended in divorce) " He proposed to her by mail from Rio de Janeiro, and they married in Boise, Idaho, on June 28, 1952, shortly after he returned [from Brazil]. They frequently quarreled and she was frightened by his violent temper.. . They separated on May 20, 1956. . . . The divorce became final on May 5, 1958.
I misread the name as Airline. And I was very confused.
This is so touching. I don't know your new address
3:00 that delivery hurt
Came into this video without context and thought he's so eccentric for talking about his wife dying in a letter to his wife. And then I got to the end. Fuck that hit hard.
I have only heard of Richard Feynman the quantum physicist ...is this chap related to him?
This letter read by the actor Oscar was written by Feynman himself to his first wife and his childhood sweetheart Arline.
So yup its the same chap. The quantum physicist.
Theoretical physicists, they're called.
After watching this I searched the letter online, can’t breath really!!!!!!
I'm not crying, you're crying.
lol ijust didnt get the first few seconds.. as i read .. airline instead of arline... so i went in thinking it was a complaintsletter to an airline. ..
im so sad
Fuck, I read "airline", and thought it would be an angry funny letter or something.
I definitely was wrong.
❤️😔
Ok I misread the title. I thought it was a letter to an airline.
great
Who else clicked to hear his letter to the airline?
After listening to this I can almost forgive Oscar Isaac for X-men: Apocalypse. Almost.
Douchy McDouche 💐
好听
goooood
Sounds like crazy talk.
Chingon!!!!
Sniff sniff..Waaahhhh thank you
What's the story behind this? Why is Oscar reading a letter by Feynman?
The point of the channel is that it shows actors reading entertaining/interesting letters from famous people. Richard Feynman was a very well-known/liked physicist and this was a moving letter. Oscar Isaac is an actor who was asked to read the letter for dramatic purposes.