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.
RICHARD FEYNMANWe are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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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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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 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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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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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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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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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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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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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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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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That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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