How an “Ordinary” Man Won the Nobel Prize in Physics

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  @Newsthink · 3 years ago · pinned

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  @Christobanistan · 3 years ago

  A man who is &quot;especially gifted at math and physics&quot; is no &quot;ordinary man.&quot;

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  @kieranmacrae4929 · 3 years ago

  That letter to his wife was heartbreaking man. Often forget the greatest minds also have hearts

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  @Videosformyparents · 1 year ago

  He wasn’t ordinary, He was humble. He is an inspiration to me (: .

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  @jimmyyu2184 · 3 years ago

  &quot;Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman&quot;

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  @hermanthegerman9874 · 2 years ago

  Feynman, one of the most extraordinary minds in human history, only scoring an IQ of 125 doesn’t disprove him as a genius, it disproves the IQ test as an adequate metric.

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  @arctic_haze · 3 years ago

  It was not just IQ. Feynman had an insane physics intuition. That means he could tell if an idea is right before he did any calculations. It worked even for mathematical theorems as long as he could imagine a physical model to understand it. Allegedly he was never wrong.

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  @VascovanZeller · 3 years ago

  Anyone who thinks he had average IQ should read his book and they will see how incredibly smart and diverse his brain was. A true talent.

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  @nonamenoname2618 · 3 years ago

  Not mentioned, Feynman also deciphered Mayan hieroglyphs in his free time, that nobody else could make sense of

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  @Dalroc · 3 years ago

  &quot;Please excuse my not mailing this - but I don&apos;t know your new address.&quot;<br><br>Thank you for reminding me of this quote from Feynman. It&apos;s one of my favourite quotes ever that I had kind of forgot during my last few years of battling depression.

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  @aixaxo8552 · 5 months ago

  This made me cry. In my early childhood (5 to 9 years old) I loved experimenting with stuff on my grandpa&apos;s backyard, I disected insects and pretended to create my own microscopes and telescopes, at 11 I decided I wanted to study physics and went to a technical high school in electromechanics, at 13 I started attending congresses on robotics and physics, at 15 I started self teaching me physics throught the FLP, and started reading about nuclear science and quantum mechanics, at 16 I started attending a college-level physics club and preparing for the olympiads, and that same year, while going through a crippling depression, I decided I wasn&apos;t intelligent enough for physics and started to distance from it. <br>Looking back, I was able to fully understand his lectures and even explained the concepts to peers in higher years than me, I taught myself math through books and youtube videos and always maintained a perfect 10/10 in all advanced math/physics classes. Mental health is a serious issue, and I wasn&apos;t able to see how capable I was of doing everything I loved doing.<br><br>Thanks, Richard, for teaching that 15 year old girl through a pirate pdf of your lectures how beautiful physics is. Now, at 20, I am back at what I love the most: science.

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  @mmmusa2576 · 3 years ago

  Omg that letter to his wife is so touching

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