I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
RICHARD FEYNMANI always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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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 have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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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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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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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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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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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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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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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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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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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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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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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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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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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.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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