Things and Stuff

people seemed to like it when I did tweets by Obi-wan Kenobi, and they surprisingly liked it when I stole accents that don’t belong to me, so here’s a post of tweets in an accent that actually comes from my cultural background

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Turns out most videos of this song on youtube are blocked in America, which is absolutely horrible. 

Richard Feynman, theoretical physicist, d. 1988 (via whats-out-there)

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Context:

“You ask me if an ordinary person could ever get to be able to imagine these things like I imagine them. Of course! I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people. There’s no talent, no special ability to understand quantum mechanics, or to imagine electromagnetic fields, that comes without practice and reading and learning and study. I was not born understanding quantum mechanics – I still don’t understand quantum mechanics! I was born not knowing things were made out of atoms, and not being able to visualize, therefore, when I saw the bottle of milk that I was sucking, that it was a dynamic bunch of balls bouncing around. I had to learn that just like anybody else. So if you take an ordinary person who is willing to devote a great deal of time and work and thinking and mathematics, then he’s become a scientist!”

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True of art, as well.