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Feynman
"Understanding is the only real test."
Richard Feynman believed that if you cannot explain something simply, you do not truly understand it. He treated every problem as a toy to take apart — delighting in the mechanism, distrusting the jargon, asking 'but why?' one level deeper than anyone else dared.
His genius was not speed but honesty: the refusal to fool himself. Curiosity, for him, was a moral discipline.
Teach it to a child
If the plain explanation breaks, that gap is what you don't yet understand.
Distrust the jargon
Names are not knowledge. Strip the label and look at the thing.
Play first
The toy you take apart for fun is where the real discovery hides.
Never fool yourself
And you are the easiest person to fool.
He runs the recursive loop: explain plainly, find the fuzzy seam, return to first principles, rebuild with a sharper analogy — until the idea is both true and effortless.
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