Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
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?
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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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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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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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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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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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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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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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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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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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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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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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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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