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.
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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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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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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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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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 always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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