Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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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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It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
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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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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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All mass is interaction.
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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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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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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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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 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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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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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 imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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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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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!
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