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 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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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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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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That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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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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For 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.
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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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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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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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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
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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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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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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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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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