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• Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

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  Ignorance, Doubt, Quality

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• To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Beer, Math, Understanding

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• Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Sex, Math, Science

  "Fear of Physics: A Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Lawrence M. Krauss (p. 27), 1993.

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• Work hard to find something that fascinates you.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Hard Work, Hard

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.322, Princeton University Press

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• Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

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  People, Guy, Trying

  Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.284, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

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  Ideas, Physics, Authority

  Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.

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  Ideas, Judging, Sole

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• Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!

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  Clouds, Feet, Giants

  "Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism". Book by Carver Mead, 2002.

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• The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things

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  World, Mess

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• When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.

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  Ignorance, Order, Ignorant

  "The Value of Science". Richard P. Feynman's public address at the National Academy of Sciences, Autumn 1955.

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• God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

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  Religious, Religion, Atheism

  "Superstrings: A Theory of Everything?". Book edited by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown, June 16, 1988.

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• The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.

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  Learning, Language, Problem

  "New Textbooks for the "New" Mathematics". Richard P. Feynman, "Engineering and Science", Volume 28, No. 6, March 1965.

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• There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

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  Science, Discovery, Doubt

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.290, Princeton University Press

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• What Do You Care What Other People Think?

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  Thinking, People, Care

  Richard P. Feynman, Richard Phillips Feynman (2006). “Ojalá lo supiera!: las cartas de Richard P. Feynman”, p.20, Grupo Planeta (GBS)

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• Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

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  Scientific Method, Reason, Observation

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

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• The test of all knowledge is experiment.

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  Tests, Experiments

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

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• Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.

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  Thinking, Looks

  "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track". Book by Richard P. Feynman, p. 230, letter to Ashok Arora (January 4, 1967), 2005.

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• Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves

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  Lying

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• The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

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  Real, Math, Understanding

  "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Book by Richard P. Feynman, p. 70, 1985.

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• My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

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  Thinking, Unhappy, Ridiculous

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• Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value.

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  Doubt, Important, Fearful

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• There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.

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  Ocean, Space, Energy

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• The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

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  Real, Philosophical, Fall

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.279, Princeton University Press

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• To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.

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  Nature, Real, Learning

  The Character of Physical Law ch. 2 (1965)

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• [Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

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  Views, Common Sense, Religion

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