Feynman: Take the world from another point of view (4/4)

Richard Feynman
Take the world from another point of view (4/4)

[@Epistemofo]

The moment at which he says "I take it all back" is one of the most outstanding intellectual moments I've ever seen. The moment that it dawns on him that he had been getting tunnel vision, he renounces it gladly and with no shame, and articulates a greater truth instead. This is the kind of mind to which we should all aspire... If we as a culture could recant without shame, think how better a society we could make...

[@yhp99]

Thank you.

[@dodatroda]

He just encountered something that proved him wrong so he discarded his hypothesis. That’s what science is about.

[@srikanthvs681]

I😅i😊

[@AFO_AnalyRics]

4:17 When you've made a claim so convincingly for over four minutes and suddenly stumble upon something different and immediately say, "I take it all back"...that exactly is the point when you convince me the most. Not necessarily about anything you've said; but about your quest for the truth.

[@jessewoody5772]

Well said. Truly the sign of an open mind

[@wahidlui]

witnessing someone stumbling on something profound, and its caught on camera!!!

[@jedgrahek1426]

I really, really loved that moment also, because the entire time leading up to it, I was finding myself disagreeing with Feynman (not a good feeling lol), thinking "surely this man, who is so open minded, who understands that logic is but a tool and intuition can be just as useful, would be able to have a great interaction with, for example, a serious novelist who has spent their life immersed in literature and various languages and has been thinking about all kinds of things very seriously their entire life, just having taken a different path".... and that at the moment he also had that recognition, there was not the slightest hesitation in discarding his entire preceding argument and starting over... beautiful.

[@OrganCat]

Not only did Feynman feel no negativity, bruise or regret when he realized he had to 'take it all back' -- he was elated that he'd found the better answer! THAT'S the true joy of discovery which attracts great scientists. You know, that moment of inspiration when you feel like screaming 'Eureka!' is a very similar pleasure to ... well, you know. And I don't even want a cigarette afterwards.

[@Dr_Wrong]

Stience pron..

[@SirDimpls]

When you meet that right person, the conversation starts instantly and carries on for days if given the chance. Damn I miss some people now.

[@NoseBleedrummer]

That eruption from Feynman about how a man has done something as far as he can go is without a doubt the inspiration that I get from Feynman. A man who has dedicated his life to his work. Damn, I'd love to have a beer with him.

[@Dr_Wrong]

My beer would get warm, go flat, and grow mold in the subjective 'instant' of an interaction with him..

[@fbmemar]

Let’s appreciate the efforts of the camera man, interviewer and others who made this happen so we can enjoy it now.

[@davequinn4701]

"NO...We don't listen to gossip or magazines... we think originally". A skill that seems to be deteriorating rapidly .. He was an extraordinary man

[@hrnekbezucha]

"I take it all back" would be the point he wipes the whiteboard clean and starts again

[@geonewman2142]

When he said that, my admiration increased so much in that moment.

[@napalmnathan9163]

means these liars should make up some new lies because all their old ones are falling apart.

[@quasimodo6491]

Just beautiful thing to say

[@Dr_Wrong]

Chalkboard.. js

[@jamieg2427]

"I'm like this . . . wait, no, I take it all back, I'm not like this at all, I'm like that." What lovely humility.

[@notnotknowing2946]

His joy is contagious!

[@eldaytripper2]

How did they manage to get such natural conversation on film like that? It takes a lot of skill to make a documentary so subtly .

[@jpgrumbach8562]

eldaytripper2 , that is the influence of yorkshire.

[@DSimonJones]

Yorkshire beer

[@notnotknowing2946]

Yea these days.

[@aware2722]

The most underrated 4 videos on YT...What a legendary man

[@dude157]

Thanks for uploading these videos. It is such a privilege to listen to Feynman's thought process.

[@richardrejmer8721]

4:45 . . the mark of a true scientist. . . When he is wrong, he has no hesitation or shame in saying. . "No. . I was wrong. . I take it all back. . I was wrong". . A GOOD scientist can recognise when he is wrong, and move on with that new understanding. If you refuse to see when you are wrong, then you are not a good scientist.

[@S....]

Still he was not wrong, he just formulated it differently or narrowed the answer down..

[@kubadzejkob332]

@@S.... well, this behaviour didn't show Richard Feynman was able to correct himself, but I guess he well was, as he loved to see things from different points of view.

[@michaelcox5166]

That whole sequence is just jaw-droppingly insightful.

[@jshays007]

That is the critical discipline ... Self discipline

[@nicosmind3]

Not a good scientist, not a good economist, not a good anything i think

[@jimbopumbapigsticks]

The best thing about Feynman was that after elaborating on something for 4 minutes he could still say "You know what? I take it all back". Never afraid to be wrong.

[@fsclips]

From a time when documentaries were respectful and observed, instead of a self centered journalist stuffing a mike into someones face asking silly questions to make himself look good. Very nice to watch. Thanks for sharing

[@Biowolf24]

He jumps in and interrupts out of passion, not arrogance. He has to get it out for fear of losing the single thought in amongst all those insanely brilliant thoughts. Would loved to have heard one of his lectures live!!

[@JianYZhong]

Thank you for this clip! Feynham has such enthusiasm and curiosity.

[@richardrejmer8721]

I would sit in that pub every day that those two were there talking, and I would listen to those conversations. . I wouldn't understand 1% of what they were talking about, but I would be totally fascinated and amazed by everything. .

[@trejohnson7677]

Richard Rejmer ehh nothing wild shouldve been in my living room sophmore year

[@03Kabbotta11]

4:17 "I take it all back" Incredibly inspiring...

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

Thanks for uploading this 4 videos.

[@danielbuehrer6887]

Thank you so much for allowing us to share his awe and wonder about the universe.

[@RRRRussia]

there were once two great philosophers who's reputations preceded them. when they met they were so in awe at what the other had to say that they both sat in silence. it was in this silence that they both came to understand everything.

[@comporellon]

the way feynman probes any matter is amazing. quite original

[@apachebras]

Very good documentary.

[@Kimlin11]

Being able to change your mind and believes at any point, it's something which is indeed not easy to do. Loved to hear him say it :)

[@rsgarg900]

Happy Marry Christmas 🌹♥️🍓🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎍🪗🎺⛪🎍🎍🎍🎍🎍

[@554466551]

The legendary figure Feynman typifies is ironically why so many have a need to believe the soul continues on. Even I'll admit it's depressing to think that Feynman will miss the opportunity to experience all the wondrous epiphanies scientific enquiry has yet in store.

[@Dr_Wrong]

Nah, time travel, brah. It's impossible, but it cool so it will eventually be solved.

[@RustyCyler]

Thank you so much for the uploads. Feynman is wonderful to listen too.

[@WestOfEarth]

I wish I had a friendship like that between Hoyle and Feynman. When I try to talk with my friends about cosmic questions like this, they're like "yeah, cool...so the Patriots look strong again this year."

[@Dr_Wrong]

What are the odds of finding a one-in-a-million person?

[@NoodLes0077]

I heard a long time ago, but can't remember from where, that there are three types of intellect: the first concerns itself with people, the second with events, and the third with ideas.

[@Dr_Wrong]

There is only one type; the one with surprising answers. If the answers aren't surprising, the intellect is average.

[@deedubya286]

Whenever I watch a Feynman interview I always feel like I want to send my brain back to the factory and tell them, "this damn thing doesn't work. I want a new one".

[@Bill-uo6cm]

You wrote your comment 8 years ago, and now 8 years later, you gave me a really hard laugh with what you had written.

[@michaelborisow815]

@@Bill-uo6cm Ten months and a pandemic later, I agree.

[@Dr_Wrong]

This is the saddest thing I've heard in a while.

[@sunkith]

I watch the video many times. Feynman is probably not the best physicist, but is by far the best in teaching physics and showing how to think about the world as a scientist should do. Although there could be debate about scientific method and many epistemology questions, his general view towards knowledge and discovery is always of great value.

[@Dr_Wrong]

To be the best physicist he would have to be constrained to known metrics. Thus making him someone else, and also a poor physicist.

[@cweefy]

listening to mr. feynman is like good music to me

[@jasonmedina7058]

4:58 I love his enthusiasm! The excitement he generated from communicating with likeminded individuals is beautiful.

[@eaglefort]

That discussion - at the end - between Hoyle and Feynman put a massive smile on my face :)) I would luv 2 go down the pub with those 2 - despite the fact that I'd feel like an idiot in comparison. Where were these vids in my Physics classes?

[@egodrive]

Feynman said it all when he said good man are the ones with nothing left but mystery and awe for it.

[@jocelynhaleh]

I would like to say... I came looking for videos of Feynman speaking. He brings life into such a glorious light, igniting my passion for knowledge. It's a wonderful feeling, and I greatly appreciate you posting these. I would like to say also, that I live in Portland, OR. And while I don't know of any opportunities, I'm sorry, I was in complete awe by that. You and I could be any two places in the world. And yet we're here in the same city. If I hear of anything, you'll be the first to know!

[@rsgarg900]

Happy Marry Christmas 🌹🍓🍓🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🌹♥️🍓🪗🎺🎍🎍🎍🎍🎍⛪

[@Magikookeven]

This was amazing. Thanks for posting this

[@BaronVonTacocat]

_It's a depressing and sobering fact_ _Well... it's been fun_

[@dannydoc1969]

I totally agree, I loved that moment. When I use to teach the hardest thing to teach someone to say is, "I'm wrong" or " I don't know".

[@0ptimal]

Oh man, their talk about the "aha" moments was great.

[@TheSemtexCow]

Just wonderful to see Feynman and Hoyle chatting together like that =) So excited and enthusiastic and enjoying each others thoughts. Thanks for putting this show up, hope you found a job bud.

[@jakobescher7592]

thank you for the uploads

[@orbitalsatellite]

Love listening to him. Such a profoundly elegant childish enthusiasm about life and matter. What a wonderful father to have. So, when he was talking about preceding notions of chemistry which are now claimed by the quantum sphere, he asked what cannot be contained in this newly discovered realm. I could only come up with consciousness. But I am a complete novice when it comes to cosmology and physics, I barely know a thing (can recognise some things if they are mentioned, that sort of thing). Surely consciousness is the product of quantum mechanics, which itself started with the ability to see, feel, hear, smell... necessary biological functions, which evolved or, to put it more correctly, culminated into (a perceived) consciousness. Perhaps the concept of function lies outside physics? Hmmm...

[@greensombrero3641]

He (they) took the time to transfer his enthusiasms and mannerisms into the future. So trivial today and so important to tomorrow.

[@peter1234511]

Makes me want to cry, Feynman is dead. Such a legendary man

[@periurban]

Brilliant. Thanks for posting this.

[@jaaaaacki]

the passion for truth, how admirable of a man..

[@gailh4466]

Great insight. Thanks for posting these four parts

[@TedDGPoulos]

"I'm trying to find out not how nature could be but how nature is!" - Feynman, 1m03s I'm convinced now that Richard Feynman would have loved to identify, understand and apply the underlying law of nature.

[@orangesfromlondon]

This was great! THANKS!

[@xxmdogxx1ify1]

wow i thoroughly enjoyed the shit out of that

[@michaelborisow815]

Where are you now? Did you heed the advice?

[@dustimus1]

@NoRegret0 I agree totally. Every argument I get into always ends in either the opposing person getting angry and refusing to concede their point or I find myself tired of trying simply give up. I always find myself conceding to a well thought out point but I rarely find anyone conceding one to me. If iam technically or morally in the right the other person tends to hate the thought that they might be in the wrong and will vehemently defend their honor. A shame because a good argument is great!

[@Taisch]

This was amazing. Thank you for uploading this.

[@catastrophis]

God damnit, I wish just once before he died I could have been trapped in an elevator with Feynman for like 4 hours, so I could just talk to him for a bit.

[@jpgrumbach8562]

Adam Hill, but he would have died.

[@RomanKondrachov]

Great stuff! Indeed, you can converse for hours with certain people

[@DRK6644]

amazing just amazing

[@Nautilus1972]

Agreed. Get two legends in a pub and let them at it.

[@geoden]

I never knew Feynman and Hoyle had met face to face.

[@0oRouseticalo0]

me and my friends all talk about this stuff all the time. its interesting what you can come up with when you just throw ideas around instead of gossip or unnecessary things

[@fabian13333]

Legendary man. Thanks for this

[@UnrecycleRubdish]

He says NO with such enthusiasm but then you can see him stumbling all the way up to "i take it all back" at which point the enthusiasm is rekindled never to let up again.

[@Friemelkubus]

Thank you so much.

[@jtbovis]

I could listen to these two talking for days :P

[@jgdogg441]

I never thought I'd find a man who's thought processes are similar to mine on youtube. This man is amazing.

[@Dr_Wrong]

KZbin is where the lamppost is..

[@lanternvalley]

He took it as far as he could co, up against mysteries all the way around the edges, as far as he could go. May many others join him, going as far as they can go.

[@akashashen]

Solving problems to get great ideas the Feynman way: Study all of the relating phenomena as far as you can go. Define the limits only to the raw data. Assume the missing piece of information is something that makes it simpler, rather than more complex. Introducing a simple self-consistent additional component that extends directly from already known phenomena really can solve the problem -- the clue: if the math suddenly get simpler or more elegant, you're probably on the right track.

[@Dr_Wrong]

Eliminate the possible, and the impossible must be the answer.

[@nobunaga0088]

“ i take it all back” Role model.

[@antimatterXXXIII]

Feynman was not in the same league as Einstein and Dirac. They invented new theories of matter itself - all Feynman really did was show how to get numbers from a bad theory (QED). He himself regarded his inability to come up with a valid quantum theory of fields (without "dippy math" as he called it) to be a great failure. His honesty about this is one of his best features.

[@colinjames2469]

Absolute nonsense. He is, even today, is voted as being the physicists' favourite physicist. .

[@nerdphysics6402]

It cant be so complex. The tap tap ✨

[@jimmylovesyouall]

謝謝

[@gregoryjclark81]

"I'm afraid to make specific guesses because the moment I"m making that guess I can see 7 alternatives." "Hmmm..." 0:31 I love the lackadaisical tone in brother bear's "hmmm".

[@sadcracker]

As Sir Thomas More wrote in 1516 many years before his execution by the king of England, and which I'll sumerise, pride is the greatest sin and the greatest obsticle to our collective enjoyment of the world.

[@lebagelboy]

if i could time travel i would go and meet feynmann

[@tabcomp5146]

He was aware of mysteries and awe fullness of nature yet an avowed atheist. I find it tragic. What a brilliant mind he had.

[@ndjarnag]

what a breath of fresh air...

[@cole9799]

I guess with all people who are brilliant we detect some arrogance in them. But with that being said i believe Feynman truly wanted people to understand how he thought(and worked very hard on that). This is what makes him great in my eyes.

[@delerium2k]

thanks, helpful.

[@doublepinger]

Genius madlad with 1000 IQ: "I talk to a playwright or something... I find... because I don't go to plays or something, I don't find it easy to talk to them. I don't get much out of it." The question's supposed to be this deep question about similar mindsets, beliefs, ways of thinking and the answer is "Man I don't watch plays maybe I could listen but I'm gonna get bored or whatever."

[@christopherbriggs9526]

KZbin in 2008: This KZbin in 2021: TikTok Shorts KZbin people, what the heck are you all doing?

[@GrandSupremeDaddyo]

Just when I thought their discussion about stumbling onto a revelation would be the best thing I had watched all day; the Yorkshire TV logo pops up at the end :')

[@xthe_moonx]

that bit where richard said when he thinks of an idea, a bunch more come flooding in...thats exactly how i feel about writing essays(about fictional books that i did not get to choose) or stories or anything like that when i was in highschool lol theres no right answer and i only care about the right answer lol

[@MichaelSmith420fu]

@~6:20+ I remember just walking around with friends and we'd just speak our minds like this..

[@lindaj5492]

5:25 … we can talk about mystery and awe; that’s what we have in common…”

[@Jimmygotdis]

I can't stress enough how much I want to talk to Feynman. Majority of people these days just lack that insight and curiosity to the point where I just can't relate to anyone anymore.

[@spulgaciite]

Did you find someone you can relate to?

[@aseri93]

@@spulgaciite Yeah, only really in the last couple of years though

[@aseri93]

@@spulgaciite I was definitely a bit moodier back then hahahaha

[@spulgaciite]

@@aseri93 I'm glad it worked out for you :)

[@NoseBleedrummer]

EGarrett01, if he didn't ask that question Feynman wouldn't have gone so far to say that he actually does agree with "some men" that aren't scientists. As well as give us such a wonderful quote of how a man that he connects with is the type that dedicates himself to his work to the farthest reach. All if it wasn't for that question we might have never gotten that from him.

[@sherlockholmeslives.1605]

Welcome to listen to Feynman.

[@PrivateAckbar]

I love how these two physicists are interested more in the spirit and psychology of science than the phenomenon science studies. Things are only beautiful because of beauty.

[@Dr_Wrong]

7:14 The condition for producing ideas is to cram as much relevant information into your head as possible and let your brain know you want it analyzed to produce an articulable explanation.

[@ShamelessHorse]

I wish the whole documentary was just Dick and Fred talking to each other. :)

[@YaBaDji]

Genious

[@soccom8341576]

Tap Tap nothing happens! LOL! It would be very cool to walk past two people talking as enthusiastically as they did. I think the last sentence was most meaningful -Well, it's good fun. It is always awesome to use your brain, even if you don't get it in the end. It's about the "pleasure of finding things out". I find myself trying to demand the same things as they did.

[@MrigankaRoy]

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@phuthaikudwa]

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[@sadcracker]

Feyman and his contemporaries where at the sweet spot in regards to their science. The exitement that they must have felt served as a slingshot into ever more greater discoveries. Try being a painter in 2011 after Warholl said art was dead 40 years ago. How many mind blowing developements in painting have there been since? Should I be bitter that I was born a painter? Later I chose to spend my life speculating on the unknown. Why? Feynman's exitement is what discovery feels like. It's fun.

[@james-r]

6:01 he wasn’t satisfied with the revelation, he wanted work out what caused the revelation straight away lol

[@txdmsk]

@thejugglenaut91 You are so right. As a matter of fact, I don't think I know anyone in person who would prefer watching Mr. Feynman to stupid shows and the mainstream crap that air on TV.. and that makes me feel so alone and so sad.

[@DaRovmeister]

If only he knew back then that we'd all be accustomed to the theory of Helium now... How times have changed.

[@Chromatype]

That's me with studying how to improvise over chord changes on guitar....wow that was deep...haha

[@Dr_Wrong]

4:16 _"I take it all back."_ Profound, but I don't know what to make of this..

[@skitzoweirdo5313]

.46 to .52=Exactly. Every explanation seems to give birth to many more explanations needed🤔😈