Richard Feynman

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• Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

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• To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.

  The Character of Physical Law (1965), chapter 2, “The Relation of Mathematics to Physics,” p. 58

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• All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.

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