You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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 always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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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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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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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 think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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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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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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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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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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 like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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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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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Everything is made of atoms.
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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 learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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