Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
RICHARD FEYNMANI couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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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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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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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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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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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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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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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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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Everything is made of atoms.
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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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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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