I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMANNever confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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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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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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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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I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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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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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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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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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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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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