Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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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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 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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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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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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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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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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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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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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