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!
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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 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.
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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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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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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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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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be 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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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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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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
RICHARD FEYNMAN