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.
RICHARD FEYNMANScience 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Everything is made of atoms.
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Philosophers 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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It 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.
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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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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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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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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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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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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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