Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
RICHARD FEYNMANWe are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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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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Everything is made of atoms.
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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
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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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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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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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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
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For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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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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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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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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I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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