Feynman is a pretty cool guy. I disagree with him, but his views on the scientific method were unique in an age where scientists are predisposed in their scientific beliefs.
religious people are less confused and falsely so – they claim to know the answers they can’t possibly back up by any reasonable or even plausible argument – they just assert their answers as fact — now that’s pure stupidity …
“@ woutertje19 You can only see in science something really new, if you have the courage to use your own reason, as Kant demanded. The IQ has nothing to do. It is an artificial construct absurd that says nothing about a person. The IQ can still be as high as long as you do not have the courage to jump over the fences transgressions and the limits to which the authorities have given the reason, it is stupid.”
Indeed. I think this principle is exactly how one ends up seeing a great country like the United States being run, politically and socially, by utter buffoons. The cocksure ones appear confident and the people look to them for answers. Ironically, this is probably the last place we should be looking for those answers.
He admits that he has no great answer if you watch the video. He goes on to say that that doesn’t matter. He is, in my opinion rightly, highly skeptical of people who claim to know the answers to these deep and mysterious questions, when there is really very little evidence supporting any of these supposed answers.
You also changed the meaning of how I used the word “one”. Again, this might shock you, but I used the word “one” to mean….. one. As in single. The number. I was simply saying that Feynman was not a confused man, and if you re-read my first comment, you’ll realise that beneath my hastiness, I was really just suggesting that he respect the man a bit more.
This may sound strange and foreign to you, but actually, I used the word “you” in that conversation to mean……. you. As in, the person I was addressing.
As for your mode of thinking, it is equally bizarre. From what you said, I would infer that you want me to treat every single person I meet as the “next great thinker”? I talk as I do about Feynman because I know what happened in his lifetime, and what he actually achieved. The same cannot be said for the writer of the previous comment.
Curious, you state that he knew more about the world than “you” could imagine. That statement would seem to hold that you have a unique understanding into the imagination of the person you are commenting on. To make it simple for you, if you disregard the comment, you may be disregarding the next great thinker. Unless, that is, you “know” what I am thinking. My guess, you’re first year grad student in physics who hasn’t a clue how “one” should think about one’s-self.
@manguy8 You have clearly never heard of Dick Feynman before, because the one word people would NEVER have used to describe him as would be “confused”. Feynman was a genius and a unique man who knew more about the world than you could imagine, and you have absolutely no place in going around talking about his “lack of answers”.
religious people are not confused because they don’t listen to the crap that spews out of their mouth. They confuse everybody else but themselves. You talk of feynman like he doesn’t know anything. See, what you may perceive as a void of knowledge, a scientist will see as a monumental curiosity.
@woutertje19 Du kannst in der Wissenschaft nur dann etwas wirklich Neues entdecken, wenn du den Mut hast, dich deines eigenen Verstandes zu bedienen, wie Kant es forderte. Der IQ hat damit nichts zu tun. Er ist ein künstliches unsinniges Konstrukt, das nichts über einen Menschen aussagt. Der IQ kann noch so hoch sein, solange man nicht den Mut hat, die Zäune zu überspringen und die Grenzen zu übertren, welche die Autoritäten dem Verstand vorgegeben haben, bleibt man dumm.
just the way this man talks …he confuses himself cause of his lack of answers…religious people seem less confused… slide down what edge what edge ..god is the source of infinite power like pi is infinite and time is infinite and mabe even space so describe that… god created the heavens from one spot and it may have been like the big bang i don’t deny that but like he said mabe were all wrong but scientist like this man have no greater answer ..i like this man very much though ….ask
Or, it could be that he is referring to Mother Nature. It was indeed an interesting use of pronoun.
Age should not affect how much a person knows on any given subject. The same argument you use can inversely be used on you.
Feynman is a pretty cool guy. I disagree with him, but his views on the scientific method were unique in an age where scientists are predisposed in their scientific beliefs.
religious people are less confused and falsely so – they claim to know the answers they can’t possibly back up by any reasonable or even plausible argument – they just assert their answers as fact — now that’s pure stupidity …
Its funny how he referers to nature as a “she”, he is in love with the scientific endeavour.
Translation by Google –
“@ woutertje19 You can only see in science something really new, if you have the courage to use your own reason, as Kant demanded. The IQ has nothing to do. It is an artificial construct absurd that says nothing about a person. The IQ can still be as high as long as you do not have the courage to jump over the fences transgressions and the limits to which the authorities have given the reason, it is stupid.”
Indeed. I think this principle is exactly how one ends up seeing a great country like the United States being run, politically and socially, by utter buffoons. The cocksure ones appear confident and the people look to them for answers. Ironically, this is probably the last place we should be looking for those answers.
@manguy8
YOUR stupid mouth just got SLAPPED. YOU can SIT DOWN and shut your Goddamned MOUTH.
Uber dumm.
@manguy8
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
Bertrand Russell
He admits that he has no great answer if you watch the video. He goes on to say that that doesn’t matter. He is, in my opinion rightly, highly skeptical of people who claim to know the answers to these deep and mysterious questions, when there is really very little evidence supporting any of these supposed answers.
You also changed the meaning of how I used the word “one”. Again, this might shock you, but I used the word “one” to mean….. one. As in single. The number. I was simply saying that Feynman was not a confused man, and if you re-read my first comment, you’ll realise that beneath my hastiness, I was really just suggesting that he respect the man a bit more.
This may sound strange and foreign to you, but actually, I used the word “you” in that conversation to mean……. you. As in, the person I was addressing.
As for your mode of thinking, it is equally bizarre. From what you said, I would infer that you want me to treat every single person I meet as the “next great thinker”? I talk as I do about Feynman because I know what happened in his lifetime, and what he actually achieved. The same cannot be said for the writer of the previous comment.
Curious, you state that he knew more about the world than “you” could imagine. That statement would seem to hold that you have a unique understanding into the imagination of the person you are commenting on. To make it simple for you, if you disregard the comment, you may be disregarding the next great thinker. Unless, that is, you “know” what I am thinking. My guess, you’re first year grad student in physics who hasn’t a clue how “one” should think about one’s-self.
yea, cuz everyone understands German…nice job dickhole.
@manguy8 You have clearly never heard of Dick Feynman before, because the one word people would NEVER have used to describe him as would be “confused”. Feynman was a genius and a unique man who knew more about the world than you could imagine, and you have absolutely no place in going around talking about his “lack of answers”.
religious people are not confused because they don’t listen to the crap that spews out of their mouth. They confuse everybody else but themselves. You talk of feynman like he doesn’t know anything. See, what you may perceive as a void of knowledge, a scientist will see as a monumental curiosity.
@woutertje19 Du kannst in der Wissenschaft nur dann etwas wirklich Neues entdecken, wenn du den Mut hast, dich deines eigenen Verstandes zu bedienen, wie Kant es forderte. Der IQ hat damit nichts zu tun. Er ist ein künstliches unsinniges Konstrukt, das nichts über einen Menschen aussagt. Der IQ kann noch so hoch sein, solange man nicht den Mut hat, die Zäune zu überspringen und die Grenzen zu übertren, welche die Autoritäten dem Verstand vorgegeben haben, bleibt man dumm.
just the way this man talks …he confuses himself cause of his lack of answers…religious people seem less confused… slide down what edge what edge ..god is the source of infinite power like pi is infinite and time is infinite and mabe even space so describe that… god created the heavens from one spot and it may have been like the big bang i don’t deny that but like he said mabe were all wrong but scientist like this man have no greater answer ..i like this man very much though ….ask
Why?
This man embodies the ideal scientific way thinking. This is exactly how I feel about how to approach reality. He says it all in this video.
lol tochet
I’m an atheist, because religion often causes the exact same problems that it purports to solve, but I do believe in two “gods”.
Einstein was the God of physics at the macroscopic level, Feynman at the quantum level.
Feynman! The man!
@polvo23
So was your mom when 12 of us were gang banging the bitch