Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
RICHARD FEYNMANEverything is made of atoms.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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 we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
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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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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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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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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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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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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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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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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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