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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
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As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!
Richard Feynman
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The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
Richard Feynman -
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.
Richard Feynman -
Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.
Richard Feynman -
People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.
Richard Feynman -
What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them?
Richard Feynman -
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Richard Feynman
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I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.
Richard Feynman -
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.
Richard Feynman -
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
Richard Feynman -
I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.
Richard Feynman -
If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist.
Richard Feynman -
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
Richard Feynman
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No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was old and was always breaking. That the clock probably stopped some time before and the nurse coming in to the room to record the time of death would have looked at the clock and jotted down the time from that. I never made any supernatural connection, not even for a second. I just wanted to figure out how it happened.
Richard Feynman -
We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!
Richard Feynman -
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.
Richard Feynman -
It is impossible, by the way, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense.
Richard Feynman -
It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.
Richard Feynman -
All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
Richard Feynman
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I don't believe I can really do without teaching.
Richard Feynman -
What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
Richard Feynman -
One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.
Richard Feynman -
I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.
Richard Feynman