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.
RICHARD FEYNMANI think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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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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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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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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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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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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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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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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I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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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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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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