The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
RICHARD FEYNMANScience is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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All mass is interaction.
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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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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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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 belief in the ignorance of experts.
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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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In 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.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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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 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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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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