Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
RICHARD FEYNMANMathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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In 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.
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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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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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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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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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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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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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Everything is made of atoms.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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