That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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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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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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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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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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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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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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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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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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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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All mass is interaction.
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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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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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