Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.
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.
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.
We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong.
You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."
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.
I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
You do not know anything until you have practiced.
I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If it disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn't matter how beautiful your guess is or how smart you are or what your name is. If it disagrees with experience, it's wrong. That's all there is to it.
The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."
We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and 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.
What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability
Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.
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