Science 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.
RICHARD FEYNMANI couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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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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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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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 think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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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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I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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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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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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