Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
RICHARD FEYNMANI 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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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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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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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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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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It 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.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
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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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