I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMANI think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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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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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 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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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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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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In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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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 have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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