I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
RICHARD FEYNMANThe things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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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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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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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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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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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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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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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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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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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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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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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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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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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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I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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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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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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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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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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