Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
RICHARD FEYNMANScientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Everything is made of atoms.
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
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Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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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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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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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 have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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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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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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