I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
RICHARD FEYNMANEverything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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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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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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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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I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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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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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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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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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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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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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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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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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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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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