The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
RICHARD FEYNMANReligion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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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 the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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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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For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
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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’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Everything is made of atoms.
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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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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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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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