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• I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not.

  Richard P. Feynman

  People, Appreciate, Flying

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• Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Tools, Logic, Language

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

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• Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ...What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.

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  Stars, Past, Night

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• There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble.

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  Health, Inevitability Of Death, Matter

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• But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Science, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

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• There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.

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  Wine, Life Is, Found

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat”, p.118, Basic Books

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• The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It's surprising that the theory still hasn't been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Clever, Self, Games

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.128, Princeton University Press

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• Every instrument that has been designed to be sensitive enough to detect weak light has always ended up discovering that the same thing: light is made of particles.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Light, Sensitive, Enough

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Crazy, Ideas, Religion

  Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.338, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Trying, Sound, Would Be

  "Genius Talk: Conversations With Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries". Book by Denis Brian, August 1, 1995.

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

  Richard P. Feynman

  Example, Way, Impossible

  "The Character of Physical Law". Richard P. Feynman's Messenger Lectures at Cornell University (November 1964), later quoted in his book "The Character of Physical Law" (Chapter 1 "The Law of Gravitation", p. 27), www.youtube.com. 1965.

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• When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!"

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  Learning, Dark, Want

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• I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

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  Science, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.

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  Believe, Teaching, Ideas

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.293, Princeton University Press

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• The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off-chance that it is in another direction - a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory - who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unusual point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself.

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  Lying, Teaching, Views

  "The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics". Richard P. Feynman's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1965.

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• My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen.

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  Dance, Mother, Teaching

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• I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Men, Thinking, Imagination

  "The Quotable Feynman".

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• There's plenty of room at the bottom.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Rooms, Bottom, Plenty

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.312, Princeton University Press

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• One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Law, Understanding, Way

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• In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Littles, Facts, Remember

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• I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Life, Thinking, Good Things

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.222, Princeton University Press

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• People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail.

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  Philosophical, People, Intuition

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• Science is a way for us to not fool ourselves.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Way, Fool

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• Only realistic flight schedules should be proposed, schedules that have a reasonable chance of being met. If in this way the government would not support them, then so be it. NASA owes it to the citizens from whom it asks support to be frank, honest, and informative.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Government, Safety, Support

  Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.253, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?

  Richard P. Feynman

  Water, Atoms, Streams

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, Basic Books

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