I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
RICHARD FEYNMANThank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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I 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.
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I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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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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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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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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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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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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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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