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“The easiest person to fool is yourself.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Fool #Persons
“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Science #Errors #Certain
“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Sex #Science #Giving
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Inspirational #Education #Learning
“If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Thinking #Mechanic #Programming
“To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Nature #Real #Learning
“Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Strong #Struggle #Thinking
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Life #Confidence #Powerful
“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Religious #Philosophical #Adventure
“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.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Inspirational #Responsibility #Science
“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?”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Stars #Night #Atoms
“I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Atoms #Cosmology #Universe
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Ignorance #Science #Thinking
“Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Sex #Math #Science
“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Mean #Humility #Acceptance
“Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Body #Degrees #Certain
“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is 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. People are terrified â€” how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really donâ€™t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Thinking #People #Doubt
“Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Science #Thinking #Doubt
“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.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Graduation #School #Learning
“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Laughter #Inspiration #Compassion
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Clever #Love Life #Science
“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Stars #Learning #Science
“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

#People #Simplicity #Today
“We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Swimming #Past #Men
“I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Inspirational #Change #Education
“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

#Uplifting #Wisdom #Nature
“Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Lying
“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

#Understanding #Religion #Atheism
“Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Order #People #World
“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”
-- Richard P. Feynman

#Badass #Knowledge #Science

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