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!
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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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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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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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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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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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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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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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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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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