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 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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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’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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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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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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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 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 like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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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.
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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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