Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
RICHARD FEYNMANLearn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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All mass is interaction.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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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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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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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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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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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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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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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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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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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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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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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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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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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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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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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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