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Knowledge Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

17 Knowledge quotes by Richard P. Feynman

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Richard P. Feynman never shied away from probing the edges of what we think we know. In this set of seventeen quotes, his trademark blend of humor and rigor shines through, giving you a quick glimpse of the physicist’s restless quest to make sense of the world.

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A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

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The test of all knowledge is experiment.

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Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

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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…

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I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

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The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

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“I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.”

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“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to…

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I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote…

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“They didn't put two and two together. They didn't even know what they knew. I don't know what's the matter with people,…

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The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever…

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I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way…

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All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a…

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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than…

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All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance…

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“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold…

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“The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I…

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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

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It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

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All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

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“There's a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”

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The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.

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You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

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I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy.…

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