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A universe of atoms, an atom in the universe. Tribute to the great explainer Prof. Feynman. Posts about Science and Wisdom.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Sep 2

I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jul 26

The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · Jul 7

You don't like it? Go somewhere else! as said by Richard Feynman in one of his lectures at University of Auckland.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jul 6

“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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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jul 5

“The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels.” I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? “People read.”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jul 4

“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 the laws of physics.”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jul 3

“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.”

Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jul 2

“We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty—some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jul 1

“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”

Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 30

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

Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 29

“The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 28

“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 27

“I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 26

“You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 25

“Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 24

“Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 23

“Some people say, How can you live without knowing? I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 22

“Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself”

Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 21

“It is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics. I am sorry, but this seems to be the case.”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 20

“It doesn't make a difference how beautiful your guess is. It doesn't make a difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is. If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 19

“Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention.”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 18

“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 17

“I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 16

“innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 15

“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · Jun 14

“The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.”