It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMANNever confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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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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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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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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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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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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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 made of atoms.
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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