The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
RICHARD FEYNMANYou 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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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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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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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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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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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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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 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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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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