Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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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Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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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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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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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 have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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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 always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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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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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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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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