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?
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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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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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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All mass is interaction.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Science 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.
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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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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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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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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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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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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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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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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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
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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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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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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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