We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
RICHARD FEYNMANTell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Everything is made of atoms.
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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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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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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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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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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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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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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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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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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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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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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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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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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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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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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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