The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
RICHARD FEYNMANThat’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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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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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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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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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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