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.
RICHARD FEYNMANLearn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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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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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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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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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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All mass is interaction.
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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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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
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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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