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!
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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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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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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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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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
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The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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Everything is made of atoms.
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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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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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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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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 would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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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