Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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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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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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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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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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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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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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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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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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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 it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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