For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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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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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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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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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
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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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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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