费曼在讲什么

billzhao · 发表于 2013-3-19 14:51

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

billzhao · 发表于 2013-3-19 14:52

I guess he is saying that physics is very enjoyable, and that is why we study physics.

billzhao · 发表于 2013-3-19 14:54

本帖最后由 billzhao 于 2013-3-19 15:00 编辑

再看这一句，费曼很有个性

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

billzhao · 发表于 2013-3-19 14:59

下面这一段话很有哲理，无怪乎过去不分哲学家和科学家，太有道理了，尤其最后一句

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all

billzhao · 发表于 2013-3-19 15:02

考你一下
Feynman怎么读？
注意不要读成汉语的 fein-man
而是：

应该读成 Fine-man

billzhao · 发表于 2013-3-19 15:08

下面这一段很有意思，艺术家说，花很好看，你们科学把花肢解了，何美之有？费曼很好的反驳了他

“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.”

billzhao · 发表于 2013-3-19 15:12

这句话太绝了

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

billzhao · 发表于 2013-3-19 15:20

不知道数学家同意与否：

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation

月如钩 · 发表于 2013-3-20 10:24

Thank you for your recommendation! It's so interesting that I can't miss it. Just got "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" from internet in both Chinese and English version. I will finish it as soon as possible.

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