Richard Feynman. Why.

Feynman gets stopped by a cop. Cop : why were you speeding ? Feynman : what do you mean why ? Half hour later Cop : please just leave me alone

If this man ever talks to toddlers, the conversation will be infinite

Even after speaking on so many topics and fields in a single breath, he came back to original topic. That's an art. Many people tend to forget where they started.

Richard actually forgot why magnets repulse, so he came up with the most elaborate distraction of an explanation to make you forget that you'd even asked.

'Some husbands arent interested in their wives' - Richard Feynman explaining magnetism.

interviewer: "so why is aunt minnie in the hospital?" feynman: "ok so magnets..."

Feynman's wife: why is there lipstick on you neck? Feynman:

I have watched this so many times over te years that I almost know it off by heart; and yet, when I bump into it again I cannot resist istening to it yet again.

Interviewer: Why do magnets repel each other? Feynman: You wouldn‘t get it...

Interviewer: "Magnets? How do they work?" Feynman: "Listen...hospitals..."

This is why I LOVE the "Explained In 5 Levels" Series on YouTube, covering all sorts of different subjects. You get to see the cut off in your own understanding, and the deepening of the explanations as they get more technical, but also the beauty in how complex things arise from simple concepts in a progression of stacking and intertwining knowledge.

This is the greatest version of: "I can explain it, but I'm not sure how much of it you would understand" that anyone has ever said.

This is how you give your job interviewer an existential crisis.

If he had only asked him why ice is slippery, he might have found out more about how magnets work.

i could literally listen to this guy speak for hours and never get bored.

I bet at first the interviewer felt ashamed for asking the question, but after few minutes of Feynman giving this EPIC speech, he couldn't have felt any better about asking it :D

Interviewer: Why? Feynman: I'm boutta end this whole man's career

"Sir, this is a McDonald's drive-thru...."

He actually answered the question ( electrical forces ) but he stated "I can not answer your question..." because in a truly genius way he limited the scope of the answer to the understanding capacity of the receiver. There is nothing bad here. He is not meaning the receiver can not understand, it is the old paradigm of the kid that is trying to fill up the hole in the beach with the ocean. No matter how many buckets of sea water the ocean will be in his position and the hole empty... Still the kid will keep trying and truly remarkable teachers like Feynman will point out why the whole is still empty...

I've heard of him, but I had no idea I would be such huge fan of him from one video. The title of the video is perfect.