Prof. Feynman
@ProfFeynman
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If you're not having fun, you're not learning. There's a pleasure in finding things out.
You solidify understanding by teaching it to someone else.
Break problems down to basic principles before solving them.
You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff.
We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.
The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know.
Study, think, create, and grow. Teach yourself and teach others.
You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before.
Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!
Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.
To not know mathematics is a severe limitation to understanding the world!
Education is not about knowing everything, it’s about understanding that there is always more to learn and discover.
If you have any talent, any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why or what difficulties you may get into.
1. Continually ask "Why?" 2. When you learn something, learn it to where you can explain it to a child. 3. Instead of arbitrarily memorizing things, look for the explanation that makes it obvious.
You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything. You learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by experimenting.
To make progress in understanding, we must remain modest and acknowledge what we do not know.
The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.
