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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose.
-- Richard Feynman

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Don't regret anything in life. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience! When you win, you win. When you lose, you learn.
-- Richard Feynman

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The #math of choosing a #restaurant is revealed in #RichardFeynman’s notes
Each restaurant is assigned a score to indicate its quality. Aim is to maximize score added up over a given number of nights of dining.
#Feynman found an equation for threshold against which you compare best restaurant you’ve tried so far. Each night, you check your favorite against it. If your fave scores above, return to it for remaining nights; if not, try somewhere new.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/math-restaurant-meal-feynman
https://archive.ph/pot0I

Nepromarněný čas

https://runarov.cz/teletnik/2026/07/12/nepromarneny-cas/

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose.
-- Richard Feynman

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Doubt #TheUnknown #Uncertainty

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

A quotation from Richard Feynman

It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

Richard Feynman (1918-1988) American physicist
Interview (1959-05-01) by Bill Stout, Viewpoint, KNXT radio

More about this quote: wist.info/feynman-richard/5462…

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Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/07/richard-feynman-arline-letter/

Scientists uncover Feynman’s formula for finding best holiday restaurant https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/01/scientists-uncover-feynmans-formula-for-finding-best-holiday-restaurant #Mathematics #RichardFeynman #Science #UkNews

A quotation from Richard Feynman

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman (1918-1988) American physicist
Rogers Commission Report into the Challenger Crash, Appendix F “Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle,” sec. F5 (1986-06)

More about this quote: wist.info/feynman-richard/5360…

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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled”*…

(Roughly) Daily is, in effect, a kind of notebook, a commonplace book. So it will be no surprise that your correspondent found today’s featured piece fascinating.

Jillian Hess, a professor who studies the history of note-taking, shares the lessons she took from her review of the papers of the remarkable Richard Feynman…

Formal education, at its best, prepares us for a life of learning. After all, we are only in school for a fraction of our lives and there is so much to learn!

Richard Feynman (1918-1988) understood the value of self-education. He was a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist, a member of the Manhattan Project at the age of 25, and a dynamic public intellectual who never stopped learning.

Often touted as one of history’s greatest learners, Feynman taught himself a dizzying amount of science. I wanted to see his notes for myself—to observe the great autodidact thinking on the page. So, I visited his archives at Caltech in February…

… In the archives, I saw… for myself: Feynman’s notebooks contain imprints of thinking in real-time—the work as it happened. They were instruments for thinking through uncertainty.

What follows is a list of note-taking principles for self-education that I gathered while studying Feynman’s notebooks.

Start with First Principles: Feynman’s “Things I Don’t Know About” Notebook

Discussions about Feynman’s learning process usually draw from this notebook, which he compiled as a Ph.D. student at Princeton. The contents include mechanics, mathematical methods, and thermodynamics. Clearly, he knew something about these topics, but he found his understanding superficial. So, his response was to take the subject apart—to break it down into “the essential kernels” …

[Hess illustrates this principle, then unpacks two others: “create a reading index” and “keep learning.” She continues…]

… Uncertainty is Interesting

This is my biggest takeaway: We should fear certainty more than doubt. Learning to live with uncertainty is an essential aspect of learning, as Feynman said in 1981:

You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

And then, in an echo of his “Notebook of Things I Know Nothing About,” compiled four decades prior, he adds:

…I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and there are many things I don’t know anything about.

If a man as celebrated for his genius as Feynman felt that way, certainly the rest of us have a lot more to learn…

[And she concludes…]

… Notes on Feynman’s Notes:

Use notes to think: Feynman didn’t think through problems in his head and then turn to his notebooks. Instead, he used his notebooks to think through problems. His thought process required paper.

Start with first principles: “Why” is a very powerful question. And asking why can lead us back to the fundamentals and help us understand them in an entirely new light. This applies to any subject. Feynman has helped me think of note-taking as a kind of expedition. Use your notes to dig deeper into topics you think you already understand.

Never stop learning: How wonderful would it be if we could hold onto the excitement of learning we had as children? After all, the world didn’t get less interesting. It’s worth returning to the note-taking methods you used in school to see if they are still useful in adulthood. I particularly like Feynman’s high school method of taking 30 minutes to understand a subject before he allowed himself to take notes on it.

[Then leaves us with the man himself, “in all his radiant, enthusiastic, brilliance”…]

https://youtu.be/P1ww1IXRfTA?si=_xqkalFg3cpe-NDR

On “Richard Feynman’s Notes For Self-Education.”

Pair with: “Curiosity Is No Solo Act“: “it gains its real power when embedded in webs of relationship and shared meaning-making”… something that Feynman’s life also demonstrated (as you can see in his autobiography and/or in James Gleick‘s biography, Genius)

* Plutarch

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As we light that fire, we might spare a thought for Jeremy Bernstein; he died on this date last year. A physicist who woked on nuclear propulsion for Project Orion and held research and teaching positions at Stevens Institute of Technology, the Institute for Advanced Study, Brookhaven National Laboratory, CERN, Oxford University, University of Islamabad, and École Polytechnique, he is better remembered as a gifted popular science writer and profiler of scientists.

Bernstein wrote 30 books, and scores of magazine articles for “general readers”– for The New Yorker, where he was a staff writer from 1961 to 1995, and for The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Review of Books, and Scientific American, among others.

Of Feynman, Bernstein wrote “[his] Mozartean genius in physics seemed to be combined with an almost equally Mozartean urge to play the clown.” (in which, of course, Feynman was in the good company of Einstein, Claude Shannon, and others :-)

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The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
-- Richard Feynman

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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
-- Richard Feynman

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You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.
-- Richard Feynman

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Life isn’t what you’re given; it’s what you create, what you overcome, and what you achieve that makes it beautiful.
-- Richard Feynman

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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose.
-- Richard Feynman

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Doubt #TheUnknown #Uncertainty

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Clouds #Iowa

Stupidity is knowing the truth, but still believing the lies. And that is more infectious than any other disease.
-- Richard Feynman

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Her Gün Bir Ağaca DOKUNMAK Neden Önemli? - Kimsenin Bahsetmediği Bilim | Richard Feynman

#physics #biology #chemistry #universe #trees #forest #mycorrhizalnetworks #JanBaptistvanHelmont #SuzanneSimard #RichardPhillipsFeynman #RichardFeynman #Feynman #science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJL-fEaubVo

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
-- Richard Feynman

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Florida

A quotation from Richard Feynman

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard Feynman (1918-1988) American physicist
Speech (1955-11), “The Value of Science,” National Academy of Sciences Autumn Meeting, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

More about this quote: wist.info/feynman-richard/8249…

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İnsan Nedir? sorusunun cevabını araştırmaya 2012 yılında başlamıştım

Çünkü ondan önce Âllah'ı araştırmaya kalkmış ve başaramayacağımı anlayıp, önce "kendimi anlamaya, bilmeye" yönelmiştim

Duyular başta olmak üzere İnsanı oluşturan her şey hakkında araştırmaya başlamıştım.

İnsan bedeni %70'lere kadar çıkabilen oranda SU olduğu için suyu da araştırdım.

SU Feynman'ı da hayret ettirmiş!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpqLIspLHqo&list=PLK2SeKwythXji9WiZaxhovgECBTOmPWjC&index=7

Mıknatıslar Neden ÇALIŞIR? Feynman'ın Açıklamayı Reddettiği Tek Soru

Richard Feynman'ın 1983'teki efsanevi BBC röportajından ilham alan bu videoda; fiziğin neden "neden" sorusuna değil de "nasıl" sorusuna cevap verdiğini ve neden tanıdık açıklamalar beklemenin sizi her zaman tatminsiz bırakacağını inceliyoruz.

Manyetizma Zamanın geriye akmasıdır!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYCJRpKLVEQ

First principle

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

~ Richard Feynman

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Happiness

Wealth is not happiness nor is swimming pools and villas. Nor is great work alone reward, or fame. Foreign places visited themselves give nothing. It is only you who bring to the places your heart, or in your great work feeling, or in your large house place. If you do this there is happiness.

~ Richard Feynman

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Our responsibility

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

~ Richard Feynman

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WolframAlpha

I wonder how many Sundays are between June 17th 2012 and today?

WolframAlpha: 79.

Ho. Lee. Crap. That’s awesome.

You do know about WolframAlpha, right? …the “computational knowledge engine”? No? Go there. Ask it things.

Stephen Wolfram is a character. (But anyone whose thesis committee contains Richard Feynman gets a complete pass in my book.) “This math stuff is annoying…” Bam! Mathematica. And if you want to really go “whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!”, try to wrap your brain around, A New Kind of Science.

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Mathematics

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. C.P. Snow talked about two cultures. I really think that those two cultures separate people who have and people who have not had this experience of understanding mathematics well enough to appreciate nature once. […] Physicists cannot make a conversion to any other language. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. She offers her information only in one form; we are not so unhumble as to demand that she change before we pay any attention.

~ Richard Feynman

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