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It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

Richard Feynman

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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Feeling Lost Myself Mystery Possible Purpose Scare
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Enough Life Philosophy World
There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Danger Future Opportunity Past Time
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

End Learning Life Live Mistake Yourself
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Philosophy Science
That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Education Goodness Learning Problem
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Decision Love Mindset Myself Ruin Thinking Understand
I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Myself Science Space
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Language Logic Mathematics Tool
I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Man Myself Smart
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Doubt Live Myself Philosophy Wrong
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Human Perfection Truth
$Richard Feynman Quote - Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.$

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Mathematics Science Sex
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Care People Thinking Yourself
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Fools Nature Success Technology
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!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand

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