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!
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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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 have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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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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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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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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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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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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Philosophers 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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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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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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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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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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