“ There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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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“ I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. ”
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“ The stupider you are, the smarter you think you are, and vice versa. ”
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“ The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. ”
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“ Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. ”
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“ Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty. ”
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“ The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. ”
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“ I think nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax. ”
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“ Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. ”
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“ Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. ”
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“ Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. ”
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“ Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. ”
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“ There's a kind of saying that you don't understand its meaning, 'I don't believe it. It's too crazy. I'm not going to accept it.'… You'll have to accept it. It's the way nature works. If you want to know how nature works, we looked at it, carefully. Looking at it, that's the way it looks. You don't like it? Go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler, philosophically more pleasing, more psychologically easy. I can't help it, okay? If I'm going to tell you honestly what the world looks like to the human beings who have struggled as hard as they can to understand it, I can only tell you what it looks like. ”
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“ Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves. ”
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“ The ultimate test of your knowledge is your capacity to convey it to another. ”
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“ I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. ”
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“ Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. ”
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“ Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves. ”
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“ Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. ”
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“ There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. ”
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“ Translate these numbers, which are written in base seven, to base five.” Translating from one base to another is an utterly useless thing. If you can do it, maybe it’s entertaining; if you can’t do it, forget it. There’s no point to it. ”
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“ It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress and great value of a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress that is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom, to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed, and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations. ”
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“ We could, of course, use any notation we want; do not laugh at notations; invent them, they are powerful. In fact,mathematics is, to a large extent, invention of better notations. ”
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