Richard Feynman Quotes
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I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.
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First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If it disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn't matter how beautiful your guess is or how smart you are or what your name is. If it disagrees with experience, it's wrong. That's all there is to it.
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The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.
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Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value.
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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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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.
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Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.
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The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things
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I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.
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Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.
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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!
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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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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.
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There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists who experiment, imagine, deduce, and guess.
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I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.
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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.
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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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But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea.
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The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
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Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.
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Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.