Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
RICHARD FEYNMANWhat I cannot create, I do not understand.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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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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Everything is made of atoms.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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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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I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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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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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!
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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