Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
RICHARD FEYNMANYou 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
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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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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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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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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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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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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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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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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Everything is made of atoms.
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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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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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