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.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhilosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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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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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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