I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
RICHARD FEYNMANNature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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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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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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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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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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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