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.
RICHARD FEYNMANIt doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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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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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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