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Feynman also said: "Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize." Ideas take time to digest and it's not acc
by bradjohnson 6y ago
Feynman also said: "Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize."
Ideas take time to digest and it's not accurate to say that if someone leaves a room not understanding what you've just shown them, you don't understand it yourself.
- tryauuum 6y agoI guess previous posters "If you can't teach it, then you don't understand something perfectly" can be replaced with "Process of teaching someone will make you notice all the holes in your own understanding" Or even without replacement. Teaching someone doesn't imply a successful result.
- perl4ever 6y agoIt's possible that's a distortion/misquote. I found where he said "I would simply say, ‘Listen, buddy, if I could tell you in a minute what I did, it wouldn’t be worth the Nobel Prize", which is about time, not intellectual ability. [https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/5020-4 https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral...]