But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
RICHARD FEYNMANI can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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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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Everything is made of atoms.
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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 have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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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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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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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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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
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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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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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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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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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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