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  1. Delivered by Richard Feynman. Context: I first got the book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman when I was a kid and found it completely captivating. Much was over my head but that was sort of the thing — I kept getting the vertiginous sensation of learning about things way over my head as they were explained to my simple little brain.
    • Richard Feynman on Why Questions

      What does that mean, or why are they doing that, or how are they doing that? I think that's a perfectly reasonable question. ... "But the problem, you see, when you ask why something happens, how does a person answer why something happens?" — Richard Feynman. And you begin to get a very interesting understanding of the world and all its ...

    • The Feynman Learning Technique

      The Feynman Technique is the best way to supercharge your learning. And it works no matter the subject. Devised by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, it leverages the power of teaching for better learning. Learning doesn't happen from skimming through a book or remembering enough to pass a test.

  2. What does that mean, or why are they doing that, or how are they doing that? I think that's a perfectly reasonable question. ... "But the problem, you see, when you ask why something happens, how does a person answer why something happens?" — Richard Feynman. And you begin to get a very interesting understanding of the world and all its ...
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  4. lesswrong.com

    As I understand it, Feynman's tentative explanation for why ice is slippery (which he himself qualified with "they say") has since fallen out of favor. This isn't to quibble with Feynman -- if anything, the point he alludes to here and emphasizes in a lot of other works is that science is a continuing process, always updating itself, and ...
  5. If you can't explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it. In the early 1960s, Richard Feynman gave a series of undergraduate lectures that were collected into a book called the Feynman Lectures on Physics.Absent from the book was a lecture Feynman gave on planetary motion, but a later finding of the notes enabled David Goodstein, a colleague of Feynman's, to write a book ...
  6. The Feynman Technique is the best way to supercharge your learning. And it works no matter the subject. Devised by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, it leverages the power of teaching for better learning. Learning doesn't happen from skimming through a book or remembering enough to pass a test.
  7. Lowell, What a wonderful topic to bring up in class. You couldn't have picked a better person to use either--fascinating to listen to. Kaleb wrote a really cool piece on the "nature of science" a couple months back and it too involved Feynman! I actually gave Feynman's speech to my class to read, as the article suggested, and we had a wonderful conversation.
  8. But then Feynman goes totally above and beyond by deconstructing the once-simple interpretation of "why" and turns his answer into an epic description of the art of explaining things in which drawing familiar similarities to better understand a complex concept like electromagnetic repulsion is futile since the true descriptions of both are ...
  9. There's a book called "Feynman's Rainbow" about a guy's first year as a new professor in CalTech's physics department with Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann. Gell-Mann was a strong supported of quantum mechanics; Feynman hated it because it wasn't "logical" (basically) and couldn't be tested, which are two things he believed all physics should be.
  10. subjectguides.york.ac.uk

    Developed by physicist Richard Feynman, the Feynman Technique is a method of learning that requires you to teach a concept in simple terms, as if explaining it to a child. ... so if you can't answer the 'why' question that they might ask, you should probably go back to studying the material. Step 3: Simplify & clarify.
  11. sixthdimensionlearning.com

    The Feynman Technique is one of the most powerful learning methods out there, offering a structured way to understand even the most complex topics by teaching or explaining them as simply as possible. Named after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, this technique goes beyond rote memorization and dives deep into true understanding, allowing you to retain information better and ...
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