The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
RICHARD FEYNMANScience is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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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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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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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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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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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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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