| I can live with doubt and uncertainty. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. |
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- Richard P. Feynman |
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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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- Richard P. Feynman |
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| We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. |
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- Richard P. Feynman |
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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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- Richard P. Feynman |
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| You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. |
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- Richard P. Feynman |
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| I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, but if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer.... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me. |
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- Richard P. Feynman |
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| For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. |
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- Richard P. Feynman |
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| Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. |
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- Richard P. Feynman |
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| There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them! |
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- Richard P. Feynman |
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