I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
RICHARD FEYNMANWhat Do You Care What Other People Think?
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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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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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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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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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In 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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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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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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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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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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