I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
RICHARD FEYNMANFor a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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In 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.
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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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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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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?
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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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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You 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.
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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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