Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
RICHARD FEYNMANWords can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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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There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Everything is made of atoms.
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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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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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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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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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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All mass is interaction.
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
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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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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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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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I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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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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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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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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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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