Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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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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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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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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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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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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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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 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.
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