Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
RICHARD FEYNMANPhysics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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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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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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All mass is interaction.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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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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I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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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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People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way–in such a way that often nobody believes me!
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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 game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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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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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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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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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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Everything is made of atoms.
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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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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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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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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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