The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhysics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way–in such a way that often nobody believes me!
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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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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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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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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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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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Everything is made of atoms.
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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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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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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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I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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