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?
RICHARD FEYNMANInnovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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 learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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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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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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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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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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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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People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way–in such a way that often nobody believes me!
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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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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 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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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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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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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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