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United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988)

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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

– Richard Feynman

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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.

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Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.

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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

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I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

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Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

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The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

– Richard Feynman

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What I cannot create, I do not understand.

– Richard Feynman

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

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Quotes from the news wire:

You put the mechanical surgeon inside the blood vessel and it goes into the heart and 'looks' around.

– Richard Feynman

Found on CNN 10 years ago

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