For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
RICHARD FEYNMANNobody 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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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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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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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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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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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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 a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
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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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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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