The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
RICHARD FEYNMANScience is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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 always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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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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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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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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I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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