Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhysics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
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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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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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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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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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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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Everything is made of atoms.
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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
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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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