Prof. Feynman

A universe of atoms, an atom in the universe. Tribute to the great explainer. Tweets about Science and Wisdom. Portrait by L.V Patten.

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If you're not having fun, you're not learning. There's a pleasure in finding things out.

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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

— Galileo Galilei

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The pleasure isn't in being right. It's in the finding out.

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We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."

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You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it?

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Give children logical explanations, not magical ones.

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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

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First rule of understanding: Admit you don’t.

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It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

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Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

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If it makes you happy it doesn't have to make sense to others.

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The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

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Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.

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The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.

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The more you teach, the better you learn.
Teaching is a powerful tool for learning.

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Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

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

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It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

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For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

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What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.