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.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhysics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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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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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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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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