Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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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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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 learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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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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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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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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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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