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.
RICHARD FEYNMANFor 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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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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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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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 think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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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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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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