Reality must take precedence over public relations... -Richard P. Feynman

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Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Richard P. Feynman , Physicist
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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 ...
Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connectin...
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Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories....
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled....
The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of alwa...
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You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working ou...
See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man....
Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we te...

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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature....
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping o...
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God....
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all....
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also....
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature....
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fa...
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and...
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proce...
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake....