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 FEYNMANPhysicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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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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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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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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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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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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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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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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All mass is interaction.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
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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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A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
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I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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