Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
RICHARD FEYNMANPoets 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?
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way–in such a way that often nobody believes me!
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A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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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 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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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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Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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