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I need help with Feynman quotations=20
(these were not included in Gaither=92s list of=20
quotations in <http://angelfire.com/tx/StatBook>).=20
The quotations are from =93Surely You=92re Joking, Mr. Feynman=94;
I have a Finnish translation from that book.=20
The passage starts in p. 40(the Finnish version) just=20
after Feynman explains his MIT experiences on studying mathematics.
I translate from Finnish back into English:
=93I don=92t know what=92s wrong with people.=20
They don=92t learn by understanding. They learn=20
through some other way, by rote or something.=20
Their knowledge is so fragile.=94
And then Feynman goes on explaining how he asked
Einstein=92s assistant a question on relativity.=20
He concluds that story by saying (again,=20
my translation from p. 41):
=93Therefore this fragility is in fact common even among professional=
s.=94=20
Could someone provide the quotations with the exact reference?