Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
RICHARD FEYNMANIn 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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Everything is made of atoms.
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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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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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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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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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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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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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 always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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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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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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