Richard Feynman Quotes
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Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
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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.
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To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.
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The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting.
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All we know so far is what doesn't work.
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But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea.
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If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.
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Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing.
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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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Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.
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Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.
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I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.
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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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Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them?
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Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.
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I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.
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Every instrument that has been designed to be sensitive enough to detect weak light has always ended up discovering that the same thing: light is made of particles.
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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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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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
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The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds