I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
RICHARD FEYNMANIt 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
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Everything is made of atoms.
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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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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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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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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
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