Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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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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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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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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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 have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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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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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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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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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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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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