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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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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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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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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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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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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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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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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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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 highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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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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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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