Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
RICHARD FEYNMANI 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
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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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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 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.
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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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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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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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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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