We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Everything is made of atoms.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile.
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It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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