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?
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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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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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 would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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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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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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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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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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