I’m not sure his generalisations were really overgeneralisations. When you have a strong intuition about something, it’s going to be a real challenge to cast it into words for an audience that lacks that intuition. You can impart understanding but not sense—like explaining colour to someone blind from birth.
Right. As was typical, Feynman had a level of understanding of a great many things that were difficult to convey to even some of the smartest people like a bunch of Caltech graduates.
The beauty of his genius was that he managed to distill an important essence of Science into a relatively short and entertaining address that he could pass on to those new Scientists in hopes that they would grasp it as a useful concept that could be applied to their careers, the Scientific community, and to society in general.
The fact that we're still quoting it here on the Internet and thus passing on the wisdom is a nice bonus.
> Right. As was typical, Feynman had a level of understanding of a great many things that were difficult to convey to even some of the smartest people like a bunch of Caltech graduates.
And indeed, he even makes that exact point in this speech.
