That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
RICHARD FEYNMANQuantum 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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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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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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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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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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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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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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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?
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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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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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