For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
RICHARD FEYNMANFor a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
RICHARD FEYNMANScience is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
RICHARD FEYNMANThe highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
RICHARD FEYNMANI believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
RICHARD FEYNMANScience is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
RICHARD FEYNMANIn physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
RICHARD FEYNMANYou have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
RICHARD FEYNMANWe are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
RICHARD FEYNMANI’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
RICHARD FEYNMANStudy hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
RICHARD FEYNMANYou 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.
RICHARD FEYNMANHow much do you value life? Sixty-four.
RICHARD FEYNMANI have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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.
RICHARD FEYNMANI a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
RICHARD FEYNMANI 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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