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!
RICHARD FEYNMANNever confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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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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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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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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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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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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