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- There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of…
- Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard…
- Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the…
- Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and…
- What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber?…
- I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say,…
- In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got…
- The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth."…
- It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit…
- We've learned from experience that the truth will come out.
- Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves
- There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from…
- The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?"…
- 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…
- The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.
- We've learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right.…
- The scale of light can be described by numbers called the frequency and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue…
- Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a…
- 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.…
- In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place…
- From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most…
- There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to…
- [Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you…
- Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
- It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of…
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