Tag: 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.
Richard P. Feynman
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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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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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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
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Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.
Richard P. Feynman
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It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.
Richard P. Feynman
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I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!
Richard P. Feynman
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. Feynman
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Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard P. Feynman
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Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.
Richard P. Feynman