Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
RICHARD FEYNMANScience is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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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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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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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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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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