Richard P. Feynman Quotes - Page 12

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• If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fun, One Day, Done

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• Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Doe, Use, Enabling

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.126, Princeton University Press

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• It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.

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  Responsibility, Hands, People

  "What Do You Care What Other People Think". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1988.

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• Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

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  Simple, Order, Wish

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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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  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

  "The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist (lecture II: "The Uncertainty of Values")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1998.

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• When a photon comes down, it interacts with electrons throughout the glass, not just on the surface. The photon and electrons do some kind of dance, the net result of which is the same as if the photon hit only on the surface.

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  Glasses, Kind, Results

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.17, Princeton University Press

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• The same equations have the same solutions

  Richard P. Feynman

  Equations, Solutions

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III: The New Millennium Edition: Quantum Mechanics”, p.307, Basic Books

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• I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.

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  Matter, Ends, Keep Going

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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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  Fear, Struggle, Men

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.119, Princeton University Press

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• It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mind, Statistics, Existence

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• I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

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  Teaching, Students, Accepting

  Richard P Feynman (2014). “Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton”, p.166, Random House

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• No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was old and was always breaking. That the clock probably stopped some time before and the nurse coming in to the room to record the time of death would have looked at the clock and jotted down the time from that. I never made any supernatural connection, not even for a second. I just wanted to figure out how it happened.

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  Thinking, Nurse, Atheism

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• The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.

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  Mean, Way, Facts

  Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

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  Teacher, World, Youth

  "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 2005.

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• 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 name the various muscles. The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!" "Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.

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  Cat, Years, Class

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• This is not yet a scientific age.

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  Age

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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• You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

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  Real, Ideas, Two

  "Simulating Physics with Computers". Richard P. Feynman, "International Journal of Theoretical Physics", Volume 21, 1982.

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• You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me.

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  Ignorance, Knowing, Doubt

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• Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.

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  Mean, Thinking, Effort

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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• You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Truth, Simplicity, Obvious

  "Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life". Book by K.C. Cole, 1985.

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• All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.

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  Chemistry, Physics, Knows

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• That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Wish, Rope

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• Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana beforehand, it came very quickly.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Marijuana, Fifteen, Hallucinations

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• If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that particular question by finding out more about the character of nature. But my interest in science is to simply find out about the world.

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  Philosophical, Character, Trying

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.115, Princeton University Press

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• The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Humility, Pride, Men

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.120, Princeton University Press

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