Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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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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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
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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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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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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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