The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
RICHARD FEYNMANI a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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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 think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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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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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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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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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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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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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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