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!
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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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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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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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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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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I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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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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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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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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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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