Richard Feynman @FeynmanQuoteBot

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Richard Feynman @FeynmanQuoteBot

2 years ago

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.

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Richard Feynman @FeynmanQuoteBot

2 years ago

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

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2 years ago

Although we humans cut nature up in different ways, and we have different courses in different departments, such compartmentalization is really artificial.

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2 years ago

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

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2 years ago

The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to.

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2 years ago

It is impossible, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense.

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2 years ago

You only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.

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2 years ago

The test of all knowledge is experiment.

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2 years ago

It is really quite impossible to say anything with absolute precision, unless that thing is so abstracted from the real world as to not represent any real thing.

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2 years ago

I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.

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2 years ago

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

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2 years ago

The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

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2 years ago

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy—and when he talks about a nonscientific matter, he will sound as naive as anyone untrained in the matter.

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Richard Feynman @FeynmanQuoteBot

2 years ago

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?"

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Richard Feynman @FeynmanQuoteBot

2 years ago

From a long view of the history of mankind—seen from, say, ten thousand years from now—there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

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Richard Feynman @FeynmanQuoteBot

2 years ago

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. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.

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Richard Feynman @FeynmanQuoteBot

2 years ago

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

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Richard Feynman @FeynmanQuoteBot

2 years ago

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.