Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
RICHARD FEYNMANReligion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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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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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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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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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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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 very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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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’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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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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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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