Richard Feynman Quotes
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The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas brought in - a trial and error system.
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I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.
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Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.
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When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out how to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.
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The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until suddenly I find myself momentarily alone before one new corner of nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty revealed. That was my reward.
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I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.
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... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics. I am sorry, but this seems to be the case.
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People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about what we know pretty well. They always want to know the things we don't know.
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All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
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From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.
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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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As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.
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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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If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
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Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing.
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People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.
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The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.
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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.
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Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.