I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
RICHARD FEYNMANOf course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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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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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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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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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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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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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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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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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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