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• I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Beautiful, Looks, Matter

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• I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.

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  Thinking, Drug, Mind

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• Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it

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  Inspirational, Funny, Sex

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• But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea.

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  Heart, Ideas, Needs

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

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• I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.

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  Mysterious Universe, Knowing, Frightened

  "No Ordinary Genius". Book by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.

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• I don't believe I can really do without teaching.

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  Believe, Teaching, Don't Believe

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

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• The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

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  Understanding, Mind, Female

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• I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

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  Stupid, Believe, Guy

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

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• If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.

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  Science, Errors, May

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• The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth." But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations--to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess.

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  Science, Math, Simple

  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.45, Basic Books

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• It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult.

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  Believe, Artist, People

  "The Quotable Feynman".

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• The exception tests the rule.

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  Exception To The Rule, Tests, Exception

  Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• All mass is interaction.

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  Mass, Interaction

  "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman". Book by James Gleick, 1992.

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• Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.

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  Energy, Subtle, Difficult

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.70, Princeton University Press

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• A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

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  Knowledge, Deals, Known

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.111, Princeton University Press

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• I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

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  Inspirational, Change, Education

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.

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  Experts, Attention, Pay

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.173, Princeton University Press

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• Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.

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  Important, Problem, Physics

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• We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

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  Ignorance, Order, Doubt

  Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.263, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

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  Play, Games, Interesting

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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• In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by Claude Shannon. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related.

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  Engineering, Two, Mind

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics". Physics textbook by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands, volume I; lecture 44, "The Laws of Thermodynamics"; section 44-1, "Heat engines; the first law"; p. 44-2, 1964.

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• There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

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  Science, Views, Law

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

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• Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.

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  Faith, Teacher, Generations

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.163, Princeton University Press

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• No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

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  Problem, No Problem, Ifs

  Richard P. Feynman's letter to Koichi Mano (February 3, 1966), as quoted in "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman" edited by Michelle Feynman and Timothy Ferris (pp. 198, 201), April 5, 2005; also quoted in "Wise Man" by Freeman Dyson, www.nybooks.com. October 20, 2005.

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• One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

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  Discovery, Law, Effort

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