I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
RICHARD FEYNMANThere is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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All mass is interaction.
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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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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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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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Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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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 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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Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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Everything is made of atoms.
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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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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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