Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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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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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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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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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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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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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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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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