Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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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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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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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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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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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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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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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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 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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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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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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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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All mass is interaction.
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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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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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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 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 think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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Everything is made of atoms.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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