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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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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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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You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
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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.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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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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