Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
RICHARD FEYNMANScience is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhilosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
RICHARD FEYNMANFor a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
RICHARD FEYNMANPoets 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 FEYNMANEverything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
RICHARD FEYNMANYou have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
RICHARD FEYNMANThe first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
RICHARD FEYNMANThe highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
RICHARD FEYNMANBut there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhysics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
RICHARD FEYNMANI’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMANThank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
RICHARD FEYNMANI a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
RICHARD FEYNMANA 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!
RICHARD FEYNMANYou see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
RICHARD FEYNMANIn 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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN