it looks like, if you take into account his body language like right shoulder shrug, he doesn't wholly believe in what he is saying but understands that you have to learn it to challenge it. Don't get me wrong I hold him in the upmost respect as one of the smartest man to have ever lived.
"The horizons are limited which permit such people to imagine that the center of the universe of interest is man." I think he's referencing CP Snow's The Two Cultures here. I.e. "Such people" are scholars of the humanities (interest is man), while Feynman belongs to "the other culture," that is: "mathematics," "nature," or the sciences. He's essentially throwing serious shade at people that don't know math.
@spencerharmon4669 I stand corrected. I think you have something there. Thank you. I guess I was hoping it was a way of expressing the deeper mysteries of "truth" and "reason", as that which was expressed by John Forbes Nash Jr. at the end of his career: "it is only in the mysterious equations of love, that any logical reasons can be found ". From the last scene of the movie "A Beautiful Mind". I think Feynman had thoughts along those lines as well. czcams.com/video/i82jqGq_tio/video.html
this is so beautiful, i feel betrayed for not finding it earlier.
At 46:58, was he imitating the accent of some well-known personage at Cornell?🎉
it looks like, if you take into account his body language like right shoulder shrug, he doesn't wholly believe in what he is saying but understands that you have to learn it to challenge it. Don't get me wrong I hold him in the upmost respect as one of the smartest man to have ever lived.
body language yeah, an exact science...
Oh no that shoulder shrug...perhaps the most ignorant comment I've read anywhere
"The center of 'the universe of interest', is Man."
Amen.
PS: don't try to think your way there. It just is.
Love.
"The horizons are limited which permit such people to imagine that the center of the universe of interest is man." I think he's referencing CP Snow's The Two Cultures here. I.e. "Such people" are scholars of the humanities (interest is man), while Feynman belongs to "the other culture," that is: "mathematics," "nature," or the sciences. He's essentially throwing serious shade at people that don't know math.
@spencerharmon4669
I stand corrected. I think you have something there. Thank you.
I guess I was hoping it was a way of expressing the deeper mysteries of "truth" and "reason", as that which was expressed by John Forbes Nash Jr. at the end of his career: "it is only in the mysterious equations of love, that any logical reasons can be found ".
From the last scene of the movie "A Beautiful Mind". I think Feynman had thoughts along those lines as well.
czcams.com/video/i82jqGq_tio/video.html