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Richard Feynman's Notes For Self-Education

"…I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and there are many things I don’t know anything about."

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Jillian Hess
Apr 13, 2026
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Formal education, at its best, prepares us for a life of learning. After all, we are only in school for a fraction of our lives and there is so much to learn!

Richard Feynman (1918-1988) understood the value of self-education. He was a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist, a member of the Manhattan Project at the age of 25, and a dynamic public int…

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