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?
RICHARD FEYNMANPhysics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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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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All mass is interaction.
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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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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply 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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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Quantum 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.
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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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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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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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There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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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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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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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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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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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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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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