If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMANI think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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I 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!
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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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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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I 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.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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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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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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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 we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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