Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
RICHARD FEYNMANYou have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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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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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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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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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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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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I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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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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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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