I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
RICHARD FEYNMANQuantum 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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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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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?
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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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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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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That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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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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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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