For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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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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I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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