Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
RICHARD FEYNMANHow much do you value life? Sixty-four.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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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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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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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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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.
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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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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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All mass is interaction.
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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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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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