I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
RICHARD FEYNMANIf I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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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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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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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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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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I 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.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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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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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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