I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMANI 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
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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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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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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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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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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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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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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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