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You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing. -- Richard P. Feynman
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What did you ASK at school today? -- Richard P. Feynman
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The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems. -- Richard P. Feynman
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In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a 'should' involved, and this cannot be worked out from, 'If I do this, what will happen?' alone. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Nature's imagination far surpasses our own. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by our present picture of the universe? The value of science remains unsung by singers ... This is not yet a scientific age ... -- Richard P. Feynman
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Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type. -- Richard P. Feynman
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In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got some fun out of it, Shortly after I won the Prize, Gweneth and I received an invitation from the Brazilian government to be the guests of honor at the Carnaval celebrations in Rio. -- Richard P. Feynman
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It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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 -- Richard P. Feynman
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Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone - both to the novice and to the experienced physicist. -- Richard P. Feynman
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[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science. The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I want to marry Arline because I love her - which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love. -- Richard P. Feynman
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But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore, one needs a considerable amount of preparatory training even to learn what the words mean. -- Richard P. Feynman
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So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Science is of value because it can produce something. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose! -- Richard P. Feynman
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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! -- Richard P. Feynman
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When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians. -- Richard P. Feynman
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It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment. -- Richard P. Feynman
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All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things -- Richard P. Feynman
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It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere - like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department - I would draw the other people. -- Richard P. Feynman
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There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble. -- Richard P. Feynman
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It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another. -- Richard P. Feynman
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We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know. -- Richard P. Feynman
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When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!" -- Richard P. Feynman
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I don't believe I can really do without teaching. -- Richard P. Feynman
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What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances. -- Richard P. Feynman
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In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art. -- Richard P. Feynman
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People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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 P. Feynman
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If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. -- Richard P. Feynman
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We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ... Nobody knows how it can be like that. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty
some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. -- Richard P. Feynman
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It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations. -- Richard P. Feynman
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You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana beforehand, it came very quickly. -- Richard P. Feynman
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It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected. -- Richard P. Feynman
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When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards. -- Richard P. Feynman
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From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work - not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules. -- Richard P. Feynman
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There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. -- Richard P. Feynman
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What I can't create I don't understand -- Richard P. Feynman
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People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about one of the theories that we know pretty well. They always want to know things that we don't know. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Working out another system to replace Newton's laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one's common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy. -- Richard P. Feynman
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There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is -- Richard P. Feynman
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Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew. -- Richard P. Feynman
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It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time. -- Richard P. Feynman
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It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Science is a way for us to not fool ourselves. -- Richard P. Feynman
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It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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! -- Richard P. Feynman
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It is simple, therefore it is beautiful -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The most important thing I found out from [my father] is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I don't like honors ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The easiest person to fool is yourself. -- Richard P. Feynman
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With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald's. Someone came up to me and asked me why I have Feynman diagrams all over my van. I replied, "Because I am Feynman!" The young man went, "Ahhhhh!" -- Richard P. Feynman
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That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature. -- Richard P. Feynman
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If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible? -- Richard P. Feynman
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There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before. I don't know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. -- Richard P. Feynman
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[When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through the obtaining of real knowledge that] he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life. -- Richard P. Feynman
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If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence. -- Richard P. Feynman
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When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention - it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature. -- Richard P. Feynman
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It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out. -- Richard P. Feynman
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What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know. -- Richard P. Feynman
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It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. -- Richard P. Feynman
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We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true". -- Richard P. Feynman
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Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully. -- Richard P. Feynman
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But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident. -- Richard P. Feynman
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If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results - the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been - and finally - an important thing - the intelligence to interpret the results. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The same equations have the same solutions -- Richard P. Feynman
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Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself. -- Richard P. Feynman
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If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.' -- Richard P. Feynman
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No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire. -- Richard P. Feynman
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We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics. -- Richard P. Feynman
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We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know." -- Richard P. Feynman
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If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly. -- Richard P. Feynman
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A great deal more is known than has been proved. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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! -- Richard P. Feynman
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Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?" -- Richard P. Feynman
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As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep. -- Richard P. Feynman
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While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that. -- Richard P. Feynman
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If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before. -- Richard P. Feynman
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If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions. -- Richard P. Feynman
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There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!' -- Richard P. Feynman
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When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway. -- Richard P. Feynman
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A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy . However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way. -- Richard P. Feynman
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We are never right, we can only be sure we are wrong. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory. -- Richard P. Feynman
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It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period. -- Richard P. Feynman
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We're always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don't understand the conclusions. After we've checked them enough, we're okay. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life? -- Richard P. Feynman
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It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it. -- Richard P. Feynman
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When a photon comes down, it interacts with electrons throughout the glass, not just on the surface. The photon and electrons do some kind of dance, the net result of which is the same as if the photon hit only on the surface. -- Richard P. Feynman
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If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS. -- Richard P. Feynman
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When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn't any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena. -- Richard P. Feynman
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There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth. -- Richard P. Feynman
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To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can. -- Richard P. Feynman
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This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. It becomes a habit of thought. Once acquired, we cannot retreat from it anymore. -- Richard P. Feynman
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God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. -- Richard P. Feynman
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It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... [but] I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there. -- Richard P. Feynman
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To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only. -- Richard P. Feynman
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We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value. -- Richard P. Feynman
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If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into. -- Richard P. Feynman
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If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Only realistic flight schedules should be proposed, schedules that have a reasonable chance of being met. If in this way the government would not support them, then so be it. NASA owes it to the citizens from whom it asks support to be frank, honest, and informative. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad! -- Richard P. Feynman
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People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail. -- Richard P. 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 P. Feynman
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The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation? -- Richard P. Feynman
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If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates. -- Richard P. Feynman
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All we know so far is what doesn't work. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The scale of light can be described by numbers called the frequency and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue to ultraviolet. We can't see ultraviolet light, but it can affect photographic plates. It's still light only the number is different. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing! -- Richard P. Feynman
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You do not know anything until you have practiced. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Nature ... cannot be fooled! -- Richard P. Feynman
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I got a signed document from Bullock's saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock's! -- Richard P. Feynman
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Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. -- Richard P. Feynman
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There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics. -- Richard P. Feynman
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As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing! -- Richard P. Feynman
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It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person. -- Richard P. Feynman
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In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The exception tests the rule. -- Richard P. Feynman
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When I found out that Santa Claus wasn't real, I wasn't upset; rather, I was relieved that there was a much simpler phenomenon to explain how so many children all over the world got presents on the same night! The story had been getting pretty complicated
it was getting out of hand. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Few people realize the number of things that are possible. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method. -- Richard P. Feynman
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This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature . This idea . That to look at the things, to record the details, and to hope that in the information thus obtained, may lie a clue to one or another of a possible theoretical interpretation. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Some people think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Science is uncertain. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory. -- Richard P. Feynman
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All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Don't worry about anything ... Go out and have a good time. -- Richard P. Feynman
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We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being able to picture it. -- Richard P. Feynman
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You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right
at least if you have any experience
because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The unanswerable mysteries ... the attitude that all is uncertain ... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect. -- Richard P. Feynman
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What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them? -- Richard P. Feynman
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Because the theory of quantum mechanics could explain all of chemistry and the various properties of substances, it was a tremendous success. But still there was the problem of the interaction of light and matter. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The original reason to start the project, which was that the Germans were a danger, started me off on a process of action, which was to try to develop this first system at Princeton and then at Los Alamos, to try to make the bomb work. -- Richard P. Feynman
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What one fool can understand, another can. -- Richard P. Feynman
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We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all. -- Richard P. Feynman
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We've learned from experience that the truth will come out. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task. -- Richard P. Feynman
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It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things ... -- Richard P. Feynman
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No one really understands quantum mechanics. -- Richard P. Feynman
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We are not to tell nature what she's gotta be. She's always got better imagination than we have. -- Richard P. Feynman
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This is not yet a scientific age. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way. -- Richard P. Feynman
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There's so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it's almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn't want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn't supposed to be able to draw - isn't that wonderful - so I made up a false name. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know. -- Richard P. Feynman
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If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . -- Richard P. Feynman
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There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong ... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from ... -- Richard P. Feynman
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Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right. -- Richard P. Feynman
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This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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 P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Know how to solve every problem that has been solved. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. -- Richard P. Feynman
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There is one simplification at least. Electrons behave ... in exactly the same way as photons; they are both screwy, but in exactly in the same way ... -- Richard P. Feynman
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The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth. -- Richard P. Feynman
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See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real. -- Richard P. Feynman
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There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them! -- Richard P. Feynman
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I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants. -- Richard P. Feynman
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves -- Richard P. Feynman
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People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me! -- Richard P. Feynman
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Phenomena complex-laws simple ... Know what to leave out. -- Richard P. Feynman
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As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea. -- Richard P. Feynman
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A scientist is never certain ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Work hard to find something that fascinates you. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists. -- Richard P. Feynman
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If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple. -- Richard P. Feynman
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Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem. -- Richard P. Feynman
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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. -- Richard P. Feynman
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea. -- Richard P. Feynman
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There's plenty of room at the bottom. -- Richard P. Feynman
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The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability -- Richard P. Feynman
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Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. -- Richard P. Feynman