Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
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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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 like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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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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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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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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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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I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
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The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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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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I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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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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All mass is interaction.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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