Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

—Richard Feynman

About Richard Feynman

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Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles".

More quotations from Richard Feynman

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

—Richard Feynman

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

—Richard Feynman

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

—Richard Feynman

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

—Richard Feynman

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

—Richard Feynman

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We make our gadgets our own by the way that we use them, with or without the permission of the manufacturer.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

—Cory Doctorow

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

—Bernard Baruch

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

—Arthur C. Clarke

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