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He is also a human calculator with tremendous aptitude for arithmetics. What works for him won't necessarily generalize to others.
by melony 5y ago
He is also a human calculator with tremendous aptitude for arithmetics. What works for him won't necessarily generalize to others.
- pdonis 5y ago> He is also a human calculator with tremendous aptitude for arithmetics. Even if this is true (and I'm not sure it is--Feynman had good intuition about a lot of things, but "human calculator with tremendous aptitude for arithmetics" seems more like a description of John Von Neumann or Norbert Wiener), I think it's orthogonal, so to speak, to the ability to live with not knowing the answers to questions.
- melony 5y agohttps://www.quora.com/How-good-at-math-was-Richard-Feynman/answer/Strigiformes-Wood?ch=15&oid=129279207&share=2483199b&target_type=answer https://www.quora.com/How-good-at-math-was-Richard-Feynman/a...
- 11101010001100 5y agoAnd yet he understood that he wouldn't be able to answer all the questions that popped into his head with his human calculator ability. It's a matter of introspection.
- gloryjulio 5y agoBut it's a universal rule. No one knows everything. Everyone has to live with not knowing things. Admitting `I don't know` is the ultimate virtue.