Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
RICHARD FEYNMANI learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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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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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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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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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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