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!
RICHARD FEYNMANThat was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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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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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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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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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
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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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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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I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
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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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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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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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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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