I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
RICHARD FEYNMANEverything is made of atoms.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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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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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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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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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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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 think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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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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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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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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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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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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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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