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« What I will tell you is none other than what we are teaching students who are preparing a thesis on physics. Do you really think I can explain all this to you in a way that you understand? No, it's not serious: you're certainly not going to understand. But then, you might say, why are you giving yourself so much trouble? Why do you spend so much time in front of us, if it's so that we don't understand what you're going to say? Precisely, I have set myself the goal that you should stay here and listen to me. Because not to hide anything, the students don't understand it either. What for? Simply because I don't understand it myself. No one else understands that. »
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« First, we have the observation, second, a series of numbers that have been measured and finally, a law that connects them. But the real triumph of science is that it allows us to find a way of thinking that makes this law appear as obvious. »
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Richard Feynman
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Richard Feynman
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« We physicists are always on the lookout for what, in a theory, might not go. That's the rule of the game: what's interesting is what in a theory doesn't work well. As for quantum electro-dynamics, we have not found anything wrong. Quantum electro-dynamics is, in a way, the pearl of physics, which we are most proud of. »
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Richard Feynman
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Richard Feynman
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