642 Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

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    You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

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    The ‘paradox’ is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ’ought to be.

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    The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...

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    We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: “It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true”.

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    Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad – but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.

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    I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax.

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    It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is.

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