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?
RICHARD FEYNMANI was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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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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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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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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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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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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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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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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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 always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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