Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
RICHARD FEYNMANMathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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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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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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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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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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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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