Richard Feynman Quotes
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To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.
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Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.
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Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.
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A great deal more is known than has been proved.
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Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.
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Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.
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I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
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The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
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The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things
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The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting.
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I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.
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We've learned from experience that the truth will out.
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To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.
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Science is of value because it can produce something.
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All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
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We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.
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The test of all knowledge is experiment.
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself
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What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. ... If we are told that the same experiment will always produce the same result, that is all very well, but if when we try it, it does not, then it does not. We just have to take what we see, and then formulate all the rest of our ideas in terms of our actual experience.
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The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.