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.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhilosophers 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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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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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.
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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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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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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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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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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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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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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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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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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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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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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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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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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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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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Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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