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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you wanna remain happy, stop caring about what other people think.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If we suppress all discussion, all criticism, proclaiming "This is the answer, my friends; man is saved!" we will doom humanity for a long time to the chains of authority, confined to the limits of our present imagination. It has been done so many times before.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There's no miracle people.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I believe, the power of governments should be limited. Governments ought not to be empowered to decide the validity of scientific theories.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry." - J. R. Oppenheimer

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When I was a kid I had a 'lab.' It wasn't a laboratory in the sense that I would measure, or do important experiments. Instead, I would play: I'd make a motor, I'd make a gadget that would go off when something passed a photocell, I'd play around with selenium.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Johnny von Neumann was the greatest mathematician around.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Students don't need a perfect teacher. Students need a happy teacher, who's gonna make them excited to come to school and grow a love for learning.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.” - Karl Weierstrass (1815 - 1897)

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me that I'm right? Please wait until I'm wrong. - J. von Neumann

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm not going to simplify it, I'm going to tell you what it really is like, and I hope you accept nature as she is - absurd. You don't like it? Go find another Universe!

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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 significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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 which might be wrong.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You see, I get such a fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Do what interests you the most. Nobody ever figures out what life is all about and it doesn’t matter.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There are two possible outcomes: • If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. • If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. -- Enrico Fermi

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. … No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong.

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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 · 20/08/2026

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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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

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Prof. Feynman @proffeynman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.