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?
RICHARD FEYNMANPhilosophers 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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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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All mass is interaction.
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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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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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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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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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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.
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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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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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