I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhysics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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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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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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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 have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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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 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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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
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