The complete FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman

I had the privilege of being his student and he supervised my doctoral dissertation. His brilliance as a physicist was only matched by his extraordinary gifts as a teacher. He drew the best out of everyone of his students. He. Was funny and witty but kind and gracious. And there was that accent! Didn’t he realize that Nobel-Prize winners weren’t suppose to sound like Brooklyn Dodger fans? He was also an artist. Most of all he was an educator; he made minds grow. I’ll never be able to loose the phrase, “jiggling atoms” from my vocabulary. He died too young and we shall not see his like again.

I am so thankful some person thought, "We need to just let this brilliant man talk and record it" whoever you were, thank you.

I’m currently doing my PhD in physics and several times I’ve let doubt creep into my mind about whether or not to continue. This man’s books, videos, and lectures always remind me why I choose to do this; because science is fun and beautiful and you have to remember that that’s why you do it, not for a paycheck or a piece of paper or a title, but because it’s this fun, wonderful thing to be explored. Wish he was still alive

When I was a kid going to high school (Pasadena High School), I was a member of the Calculus Club. Occasionally we had this quirky professor come over from Caltech and tutor us. (There were only about a dozen of us in the Calc Club.) Professor Richard didn't seem to be very interested in teaching us math or physics. He was more interested in getting us to think, be inquisitive, think outside the box, ask questions, don't follow conventional wisdom. (At the time there were new technologies being developed to look at the world differently. Mankind was beginning to explore space with satellites and probes. New instruments were being developed to examine the world around us - like the electron microscope). Professor Richard had a profound impact on the way I saw the world around me. I didn't know him as Dr. Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner; he was just Professor Richard........

"If you think science is boring, you are learning from a wrong teacher" - Richard Feynman

he done what most adults can only dream about, he never grew up.

I'm now 60 years old. I first saw this on the BBC 40 years ago. Wonderful!

Feynman proved, once again, that one of the most powerful cures to boredom and the antidote to depression and the way to find life exciting is to have and retain a child's curiosity about the world around us, a curiosity strong enough so that it morphs into obtaining the answers to questions about the how's and why's of our universe and everything in it.

Feyman was an absolute treasure to all humanity.

The exuberant joy with which he's telling these stories is lovely.

I love how he flips from genius to happy kid when finishes explaining something. Like "Isn't it a delight to learn and think about this stuff?" Yes. Yes it is.

I've listened to Fun to Imagine from beginning to end a dozen times in my life. Nobody made science seem so fun as Feynman, he and Sagan shaped my life.

“It heats up simply because you’re jiggling it” I want that on a t-shirt.

He was my father's favorite teacher... He was lucky enough to have him at Caltech... I still have his physics book from that class with his homework in it. My dad landed at Bell Labs, an electrical engineer. ..as a child I thought he drove a train. Over the years, spurred on by my dad's enthusiasm I've plowed through reading Feynman's books and watching his lectures, somehow makes me feel closer to my dad...I'm pretty sure he inspired my dad to pick up the bongos...and why I have some too. *We were all lucky to live in a time that produced such an amazing mind.. gotta love it...the constant jiggling💕

Cop: "Mr Feynman, why were you speeding?" Feynman: deep breath

No one explained science like Richard Feynman. His ability to put complex thoughts into layman's terms is legendary.

A collection of atoms explaining themselves.

I... I have to do this... : 00:50 Jiggling Atoms 07:18 Fire 12:08 Rubber Bands 14:53 Magnets 22:29 Electricity 32:05 Mirror and Train puzzles 37:46 Seeing Things 43:43 Big Numbers 55:01 Ways of Thinking

It's hard not to love Richard. My brain atoms are jiggling.

The human race should treasure people like this, not just because of his knowledge of physics and the universe but because he demonstrated the ability to explain complex things in terms which make it easy for the average person to understand and with such enthusiasm for the subject that you can't help but get swept along for the ride.