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?
RICHARD FEYNMANThank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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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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All mass is interaction.
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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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 game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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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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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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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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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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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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