Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
RICHARD FEYNMANThe things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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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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I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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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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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 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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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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