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.
RICHARD FEYNMANThat was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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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 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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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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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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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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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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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