Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
RICHARD FEYNMANScience is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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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.
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People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way–in such a way that often nobody believes me!
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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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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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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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Everything is made of atoms.
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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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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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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 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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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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 don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile.
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