Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
RICHARD FEYNMANI 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.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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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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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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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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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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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 think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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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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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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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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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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