The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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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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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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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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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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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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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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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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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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