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It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is
Richard Feynman -
You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.
Richard Feynman
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Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.
Richard Feynman -
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!
Richard Feynman -
Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.
Richard Feynman -
I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.
Richard Feynman -
There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.
Richard Feynman -
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard Feynman
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There's plenty of room at the bottom.
Richard Feynman -
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Richard Feynman -
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.
Richard Feynman -
If you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid - not only what you think is right about it; other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked -to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.
Richard Feynman -
The test of all knowledge is experiment.
Richard Feynman -
Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.
Richard Feynman
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Everything is made of atoms.
Richard Feynman -
It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss.
Richard Feynman -
The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.
Richard Feynman -
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
Richard Feynman -
This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.
Richard Feynman -
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.
Richard Feynman
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No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
Richard Feynman -
Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
Richard Feynman -
When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.
Richard Feynman -
The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.
Richard Feynman