I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMANThe first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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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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The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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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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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Nobody 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.
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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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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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