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Richard P. Feynman
“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
“Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.”
“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school....
“When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to na...
“Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.”
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experimen...
“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
“It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different...
“Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it. ”
“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
“All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you ...
“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But ther...
“I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!”
