Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
RICHARD FEYNMANWords can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhilosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
RICHARD FEYNMANIn 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.
RICHARD FEYNMANYou 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.
RICHARD FEYNMANYou have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
RICHARD FEYNMANWe are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
RICHARD FEYNMANNobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
RICHARD FEYNMANPoets 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?
RICHARD FEYNMANI think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
RICHARD FEYNMANScience is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
RICHARD FEYNMANScience is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
RICHARD FEYNMANHow much do you value life? Sixty-four.
RICHARD FEYNMANA philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
RICHARD FEYNMANThat’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
RICHARD FEYNMANIf I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMANLearn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
RICHARD FEYNMAN