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.
RICHARD FEYNMANStudy hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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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.
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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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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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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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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 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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In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Everything is made of atoms.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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