I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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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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.
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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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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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Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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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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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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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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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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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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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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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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All mass is interaction.
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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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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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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