Richard Feynman Quotes
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If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.
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We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.
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Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.
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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.
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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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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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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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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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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 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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It is impossible, by the way, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense.
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Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.
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Few people realize the number of things that are possible.
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Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.
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The same equations have the same solutions
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The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.
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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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All mass is interaction.
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The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.
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Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment that has not been done; it is not good if it only tells you what just went on.