Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
RICHARD FEYNMANWords can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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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 always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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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 think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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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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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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