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.
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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I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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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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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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I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
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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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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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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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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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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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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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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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