If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMANThe imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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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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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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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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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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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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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.
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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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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
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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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Poets 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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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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