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.
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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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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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Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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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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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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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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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’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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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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