Humor Quotes

Laughter as philosophy. The funniest, sharpest observations about the absurdity of being alive.

21194 quotes

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"Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings!"
Feynman, Richard
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"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater."
Feynman, Richard
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"The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim."
Feynman, Richard
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"You cannot blame me because I am just doing this as a game."
Feynman, Richard
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"For comfort and efficiency, our stores are arranged so that the best things are always hardest to find."
Feynman, Richard
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"All the things we really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"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!"
Feynman, Richard
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"You don't have to know that something called the 'Atom' exists to talk about people humping in the street."
Feynman, Richard
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"The real problem in speaking is that not a sound ever comes out of my mouth the same way twice."
Feynman, Richard
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"The probability of a person reading this article is high. The probability of a person understanding it is low."
Feynman, Richard
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"Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had muscles!"
Feynman, Richard
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"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert."
Feynman, Richard
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"How can we say that a function is growing when the function is oscillating?"
Feynman, Richard
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"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."
Feynman, Richard
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"Anybody who comes to a physicist and says he has a universal theory and wants to discuss the theory, well, such a person should look out."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."
Bohr, Niels
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"There are some things so serious that you can only joke about them."
Bohr, Niels
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"The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks."
Bohr, Niels
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"In theoretical physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself—nature does it for you."
Dirac, Paul
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"One should not work on semiconductors, that is not real physics."
Dirac, Paul
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"Careful is spelled with two l's."
Feynman, Richard
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"You have to keep a sense of humor about it."
Feynman, Richard
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"Do not worry about your problems with math; I assure you mine are far greater."
Feynman, Richard
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"What is the difference between a scientist and a magician? The scientist knows it won't work."
Feynman, Richard
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"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater."
Einstein, Albert
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"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
Einstein, Albert
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
Einstein, Albert
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"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
Einstein, Albert
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"Do not worry about your problems with math, I assure you that my problems with math are far greater."
Einstein, Albert