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 FEYNMANThere is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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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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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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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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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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Everything is made of atoms.
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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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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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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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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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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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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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