Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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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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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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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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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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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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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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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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 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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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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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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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Everything is made of atoms.
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There 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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