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.
RICHARD FEYNMANNever confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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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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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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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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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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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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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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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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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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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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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
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