What Do You Care What Other People Think?
RICHARD FEYNMANStudy hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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 don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
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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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People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way–in such a way that often nobody believes me!
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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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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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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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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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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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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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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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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All mass is interaction.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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