Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
RICHARD FEYNMANIn 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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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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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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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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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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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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All mass is interaction.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Everything is made of atoms.
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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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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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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