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We must, incidentally, make it clear from the beginning that if a thing is not a science, it is not necessarily bad. For example, love is not a science. So, if something is said not to be a science, it does not mean that there is something wrong with it; it just means that it is not a science.
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Knowledge is of no real value if all you can tell me is what happened yesterday. It is necessary to tell what will happen tomorrow if you do something.... You must be willing to stick your neck out.
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.
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It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.
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The proteins of bacteria and the proteins of humans are the same. In fact it has recently been found that the protein-making machinery in the bacteria can be given orders from the red cells to produce red cell proteins. So close is life to life.
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There was a moment when I knew how nature worked. It had elegance and beauty. The goddamn thing was gleaming.
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You know... there are about a hundred billion stars in the galaxy — ten to the eleventh power. That used to be considered a huge number. Today it's less than the national debt. We ought to call them "economical numbers."
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A professor of theoretical physics always has to be told what to look for. He just uses his knowledge to explain the observations of the experimenters!"
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The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.
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One of the consequences is that things which we used to consider as waves also behave like particles, and particles behave like waves; in fact everything behaves the same way. There is no distinction between a wave and a particle. So quantum mechanics unifies the idea of the field and its waves, and the particles, all into one.
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There are great ideas developed in the history of man, and these ideas do not last unless they are passed purposely and clearly from generation to generation.
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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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It is imperative in science to doubt; it is absolutely necessary, for progress of science, to have uncertainty as a fundamental part of your inner nature.
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Science is of value because it can produce something.
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You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."
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There are many, many aspects of the world that mathematics is unnecessary for, such as love, and which are very delightful and wonderful to appreciate and to feel awed and mysterious about.
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There is nothing more exciting than the truth, the pay dirt of the scientist, discovered by his painstaking efforts.
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We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial.
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Nature seems to keep piling on these particles [having the same properties but heavier masses] as if to drug us.
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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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"The exception proves that the rule is wrong." That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong.
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In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these days of specialization there are too few people who have such a deep understanding of two departments of our knowledge that they do not make fools of themselves in one or the other.
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Some people believe that a theorem is proved when a logically correct proof is given; but some people believe a theorem is proved only when the student sees why it is inevitably true. The author tends to belong to this second school of thought.
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There are the rushing waves... mountains of molecules each stupidly minding its own business... trillions apart... yet forming white surf in unison.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Richard Feynman
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Born:
May 11, 1918
Died:
February 15, 1988
(aged 69)
Bio:
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist.
Known for:
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985)
The Meaning of It All
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