Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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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That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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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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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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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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Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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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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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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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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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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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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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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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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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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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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