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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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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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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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 believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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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I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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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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Everything is made of atoms.
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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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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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