I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
RICHARD FEYNMANI learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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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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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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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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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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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.
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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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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’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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Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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