Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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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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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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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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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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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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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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All mass is interaction.
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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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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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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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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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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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I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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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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That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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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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