The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
RICHARD FEYNMANI couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
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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.
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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 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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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
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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 have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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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.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
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