Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
RICHARD FEYNMANTell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
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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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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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Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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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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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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The 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.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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