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.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhilosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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 learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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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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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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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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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 first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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All mass is interaction.
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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