Category: physicist
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First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.
Richard P. Feynman
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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Stephen Hawking
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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard P. Feynman
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Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
Stephen Hawking
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I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.
Richard P. Feynman
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One can’t predict the weather more than a few days in advance.
Stephen Hawking
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We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.
Richard P. Feynman
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Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.
Stephen Hawking
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo Galilei
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Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone – both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.
Richard P. Feynman