Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
RICHARD FEYNMANI learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
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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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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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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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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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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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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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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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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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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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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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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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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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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 have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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