If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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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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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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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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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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