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Feynman liked to tell a story about how when he was a little kid, he asked his father, "Why do things fall?" As an adult, he praised his father for answering, "Nobody knows why things fall. It's a deep mystery, and the smartest people in the world don't know the basic reason for it." Contrast that with the average person's off-the-cuff answer, "Oh, it's because of gravity." Feynman liked his father's answer, because his father realized that simply giving a name to something didn't mean that you understood it. [http://www.vias.org/physics/bk1_05_01.html]

Feynman liked to tell a story about how when he was a little kid, he asked his father, "Why do things fall?" As an adult, he praised his father for answering, "Nobody knows why things fall. It's a deep mystery, and the smartest people in the world don't know the basic reason for it." Contrast that with the average person's off-the-cuff answer, "Oh, it's because of gravity." Feynman liked his father's answer, because his father realized that simply giving a name to something didn't mean that you understood it. [http://www.vias.org/physics/bk1_05_01.html]

[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Feynman.html Biography]

[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Feynman.html Biography]

[[Category:Physicists|Feynman, Richard]]

[[Category:Physicists|Feynman, Richard]]