The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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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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Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way–in such a way that often nobody believes me!
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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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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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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.
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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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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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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 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 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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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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