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• If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler.

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  Somewhere Else, Ifs, Universe

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.

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  Real, Theory, Electrons

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• Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

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  Life, Heart, Son

  "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman". Book by Christopher Sykes, 1996.

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• I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. [...] 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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  Beautiful, Philosophy, Flower

  "What Do You Care What Other People Think?". Book by Richard P. Feynman, "The Making of a Scientist," p. 11, 1988.

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• Science is uncertain.

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  Uncertain

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• What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

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  Graduation, Learning, School

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

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  Theory, Prove, Vague

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• All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

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  Way, Another Way

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• A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

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  Doubt, Progress, Rooms

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

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  Language, Mathematics, Plus

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

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• We've learned from experience that the truth will out.

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  Truth Will Come Out

  "Cargo Cult Science". Richard P. Feynman's Caltech commencement address (1974), as quoted in "'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!': Adventures of a Curious Character" edited by Ralph Leighton (p. 342), calteches.library.caltech.edu. 1985.

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• So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.

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  Integrity, Good Luck, Organization

  Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.346, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

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  Inspirational, People, Understanding

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.301, Princeton University Press

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• I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science. The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith.

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  Attitude, Believe, Order

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• Few people realize the number of things that are possible.

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  Numbers, People, Realizing

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• The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

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  Judging, Tests, Sole

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

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• It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

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  Possible And Impossible, Impossible, Prove

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.131, Princeton University Press

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• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

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  Principles, Way, Fool

  Richard P Feynman (2014). “Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton”, p.343, Random House

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• It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.

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  Freedom, Philosophy, Responsibility

  "The Value of Science". Public address at the National Academy of Sciences, published in "What Do You Care What Other People Think" (1988), Autumn 1955.

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• For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

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  Science, Different, Use

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.94, Princeton University Press

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• Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

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  Winning, Bigs, Nobel

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• We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, "You don't know what you are talking about!" The second one says, "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?"

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  Mean, Talking, Philosopher

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume I; lecture 8: "Motion")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, 1964.

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• 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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  Stars, Learning, Science

  "Richard P. Feynman, Teacher". David L. Goodstein, "Physics Today", Volume 42, No. 2, February 1989.

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• Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

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  Atheism, Trying, Way

  "What is and What Should be the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society". Lecture at the Galileo Symposium, Italy, 1964.

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• If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.

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  Would Be, Physics, Week

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