Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
RICHARD FEYNMANI think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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All mass is interaction.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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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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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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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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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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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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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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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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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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Everything is made of atoms.
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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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