The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
RICHARD FEYNMANYou have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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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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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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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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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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Everything is made of atoms.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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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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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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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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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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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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