I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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 trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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Everything is made of atoms.
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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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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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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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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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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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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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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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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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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