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!
RICHARD FEYNMANI learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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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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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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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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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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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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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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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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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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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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There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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