Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
RICHARD FEYNMANThe 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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 is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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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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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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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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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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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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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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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
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