We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
RICHARD FEYNMANScience is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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All mass is interaction.
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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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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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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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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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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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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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