I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
RICHARD FEYNMANPoets 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?
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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All mass is interaction.
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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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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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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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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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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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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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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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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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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