Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
Richard P. FeynmanIn fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right...
Richard P. FeynmanPoets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one - million - year - old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
Richard P. FeynmanI don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
Richard P. FeynmanTags: learning
You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.
Richard P. FeynmanTags: unknown
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
Richard P. FeynmanTags: humor science inspirational philosophy-of-science
I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
Richard P. FeynmanTags: philosophical cosmology
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
Richard P. FeynmanTags: confidence
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
Richard P. FeynmanI can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
Richard P. FeynmanTags: uncertainty
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