Richard Feynman Quotes
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It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.
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It is simple, therefore it is beautiful
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I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
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Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
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I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on
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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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The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
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Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself
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The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things
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The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.
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Work hard to find something that fascinates you.
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The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.
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By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.
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We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.
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I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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Science is uncertain.
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There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.
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So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!
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What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.
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Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.