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.
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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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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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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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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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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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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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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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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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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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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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 believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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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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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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All mass is interaction.
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