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Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation.

Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation.

Richard P. Feynman
Sex, Math, Science
"Fear of Physics: A Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Lawrence M. Krauss (p. 27), 1993.

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

Richard P. Feynman
Beer, Math, Understanding

A great deal more is known than has been proved.

Richard P. Feynman
Math, Deals, Has Beens
"The Music of the Primes : Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery of Mathematics". Book by Marcus du Sautoy, 2003.

The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth." But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations--to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess.

Richard P. Feynman
Science, Math, Simple
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat”, p.45, Basic Books

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

Richard P. Feynman
Real, Math, Understanding
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Book by Richard P. Feynman, p. 70, 1985.

What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. ... If we are told that the same experiment will always produce the same result, that is all very well, but if when we try it, it does not, then it does not. We just have to take what we see, and then formulate all the rest of our ideas in terms of our actual experience.

Richard P. Feynman
Philosophy, Math, Ideas

What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the material with which we work, by nature herself. We look, and we see what we find, and we cannot say ahead of time successfully what it is going to look like. ... It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

Richard P. Feynman
Math, Science, Mind

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