I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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All mass is interaction.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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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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I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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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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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 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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For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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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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