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!
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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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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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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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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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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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 always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Everything is made of atoms.
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I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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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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