I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
RICHARD FEYNMANI learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
RICHARD FEYNMANI always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhysics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
RICHARD FEYNMANQuantum 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.
RICHARD FEYNMANWe are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
RICHARD FEYNMANYou have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
RICHARD FEYNMANWords can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
RICHARD FEYNMANYou 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.
RICHARD FEYNMANI’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMANIt doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMANThe imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
RICHARD FEYNMANIn 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 FEYNMANIf I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMANI 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.
RICHARD FEYNMANIf you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
RICHARD FEYNMANAll mass is interaction.
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