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"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing."
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Richard P. Feynman
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"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
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Richard P. Feynman
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard P. Feynman
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| An excellent overview of Richard Feynman's life and how he thought. Reinforced much of my anti-intellectual stance; simply knowing the names of things is not the same as actually knowing the subject material. Touches on the concept of how difficult i...more | |
“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman
― Richard P. Feynman
“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.”
― Richard P. Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
― Richard P. Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan
― Carl Sagan
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
― Richard P. Feynman
― Richard P. Feynman
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
― Richard P. Feynman
― Richard P. Feynman
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