I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
RICHARD FEYNMANNobody 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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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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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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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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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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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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I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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