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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

You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Confidence Inspirational Right Yourself
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Enough Fools Myself
The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Himself People Reading
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Destroy Fun Life Thinking Yourself
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
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
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Age Discovery Live
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Herself Nature Pieces Reveal
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 FEYNMAN

Acceptance Herself Hope Mad Myself Nature View
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
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Improvement Ourselves Possible Quick Wrong
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Different Evidence Human Science
I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Father Learning Myself Patience Reading
The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Game Imagination Myself Play
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Future Thinking Yourself
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Animal Philosophy Science

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