I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
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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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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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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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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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
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I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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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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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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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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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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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 don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
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Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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