Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
RICHARD FEYNMANBut there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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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’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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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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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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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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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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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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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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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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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 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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Everything is made of atoms.
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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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