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?
RICHARD FEYNMANI don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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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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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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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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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Everything is made of atoms.
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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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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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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All mass is interaction.
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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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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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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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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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Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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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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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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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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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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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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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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