I need help with Feynman quotations
(these were not included in Gaither’s list of
quotations in <http://angelfire.com/tx/StatBook>).
The quotations are from “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”; I have a Finnish translation from that book.
The passage starts in p. 40(the Finnish version) just
after Feynman explains his MIT experiences on studying mathematics. I translate from Finnish back into English:
“I don’t know what’s wrong with people.
They don’t learn by understanding. They learn
through some other way, by rote or something.
Their knowledge is so fragile.”
And then Feynman goes on explaining how he asked
Einstein’s assistant a question on relativity.
He concluds that story by saying (again,
my translation from p. 41):
“Therefore this fragility is in fact common even among professionals.”
Could someone provide the quotations with the exact reference?
Regards,
Antti
P.S. I hope that the lines don’t appear to be too long.
I tried to follow Ludwik’s advice by writing short lines.
Antti Savinainen
Kuopion Lyseo High School
Puijonkatu 18
70110 Kuopio
FINLAND
E-mail: antti.savinainen@kuopio.fi
Web site: <http://kotisivu.mtv3.fi/physics/>