Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
RICHARD FEYNMANI a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
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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’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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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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All mass is interaction.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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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.
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Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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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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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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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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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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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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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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