Everything is made of atoms.
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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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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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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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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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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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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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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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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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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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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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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