I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMANThere are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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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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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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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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People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way–in such a way that often nobody believes me!
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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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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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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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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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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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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