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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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• It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.

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  Science, Progress, Goes On

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• If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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  Average, Nobel, Persons

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.342, Princeton University Press

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• Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being able to picture it.

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  Writing, Expression, Able

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• Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

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  Spiritual, Simplicity, Spirituality

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

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• All we know so far is what doesn't work.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Knows

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• I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.

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  Fake People, Thinking, Physics

  The Character of Physical Law ch. 6 (1965)

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• It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

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  Loss, Differences, Safety

  Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.238, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?

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  Science, Thinking, Law

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• Don't worry about anything. Go out and have a good time.

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  Worry, Anything Goes, Good Times

  "No Ordinary Genius". Book by Christopher Sykes, p. 252, 1994.

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• So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No," I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely." At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. 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, Flying, Way

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

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• People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!

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  Sarcastic, Believe, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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• We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work, although, there has been in these days, some interest in this kind of thing.

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  Funny, Work, Writing

  "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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• Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

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  Fooling Ourselves

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• I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, p.5, Basic Books

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• Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

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  Stars, Science, Night

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

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• It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.

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  Beautiful, Smart, Names

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.129, Princeton University Press

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• The scale of light can be described by numbers called the frequency and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue to ultraviolet. We can't see ultraviolet light, but it can affect photographic plates. It's still light only the number is different.

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  Light, Blue, Numbers

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.13, Princeton University Press

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• A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!

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  Philosopher, Quantum, Results

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• In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.

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  Effort, Physics, Modern

  The Feynman Lectures on Physics (pp. 6-1 1)

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• Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.

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  Doe, Care

  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 was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time ... On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

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  Believe, Men, Thinking

  The Character of Physical Law ch. 6 (1965)

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• We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.

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  Imagination

  "Photons: Corpuscles of Light". Richard P. Feynman's lecture 1 at the Sir Douglas Robb lectures at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, www.youtube.com. 1979.

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• So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.

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  Law, Fundamentals, Physics

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

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• An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

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  Ordinary, Fool, Hocus Pocus

  Richard P Feynman (2014). “Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton”, p.284, Random House

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