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"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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"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."
"You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true."
"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing."
"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again."
"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
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"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!"
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
"Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate."
"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."
"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?"
"The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another."
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."
"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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