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Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.
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A great deal more can be known than can be proved.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea. We have lost the need to go to an authority to find out whether an idea is true or not. We can read an authority and let him suggest something; we can try it out and find out if it is true or not. If it is not true, so much the worse — so the "authorities" lose some of their functions.
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Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.
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I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.
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There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists who experiment, imagine, deduce, and guess.
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I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.
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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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What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.... If we are told that the same experiment will always produce the same result, that is all very well, but if when we try it, it does not, then it does not. We just have to take what we see, and then formulate all the rest of our ideas in terms of our actual experience.
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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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It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.
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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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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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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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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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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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The other thing that gives a scientific man the creeps in the world today are the methods of choosing leaders - in every nation. Today, for example, in the United States, the two political parties have decided to employ public relations men, that is, advertising men, who are trained in the necessary methods of telling the truth or lying in order to develop a product.
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We call these quanta gluons, and say that besides quarks there must be gluons to hold the quarks together.
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The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter — but it's a damn good book anyway.
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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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Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.
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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 do not.
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I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.
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If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist.
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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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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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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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