Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
RICHARD FEYNMANI think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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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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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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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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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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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 have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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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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