In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
RICHARD FEYNMANThe game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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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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You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
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I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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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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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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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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