Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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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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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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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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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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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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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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Everything is made of atoms.
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