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.
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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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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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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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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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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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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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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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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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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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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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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