Feynman: Take the world from another point of view

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A Yorkshire Television interview with Richard Feynman, shown in Great Britain in 1973.

One Sunday all the kids were walking in little parties with their fathers in the woods. The next Monday we were playing in a field, and a kid said to me, "What's that bird? Do you know the name of that bird?"

I said, "I haven't the slightest idea."

He said, "Well, it is a brown‑throated thrush. Your father doesn't teach you anything."

But my father had already taught me about the names of birds. Once we walked, and he said, "That is a brown-throated thrush. In German it is called the Pfleegel flügel. In Chinese it is called Keewontong. In Japanese a Towhatowharra, and so on. And when you know all the names of that bird in every language, you know nothing, but absolutely nothing, about the bird."

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsgBtOVzHKI
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnzB_IHGyjg
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNOghidK2TY
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqwm6RbxcQ