I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
RICHARD FEYNMANYou 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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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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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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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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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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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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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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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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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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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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I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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