Richard P. Feynman Quotes

• I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

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• Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

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• Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

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• If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.

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• We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

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• Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.

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• Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

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• Physics is like s*x: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

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• We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

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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!

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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.

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• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

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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.

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• Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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• I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

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• I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

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Richard P. Feynman (21)

Birth:	11th May, 1918
Death:	15th February, 1988
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Physicist

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Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics.

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