If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMANReligion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
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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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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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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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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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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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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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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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Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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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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