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.
RICHARD FEYNMANI learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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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.
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Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
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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 have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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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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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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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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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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