I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
RICHARD FEYNMANI 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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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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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Everything is made of atoms.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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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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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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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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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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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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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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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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I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
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