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What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Richard Feynman

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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Important Love Science
A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
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Existence Necessary Philosophy Result Science
I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
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Feeling Lost Myself Mystery Possible Purpose Scare
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Beautiful Greatness Nature Simplicity
There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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Danger Future Opportunity Past Time
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
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Greatness Necessary Philosophy Science Wrong
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Discipline Education Possible Yourself
All mass is interaction.
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One Liner Science Space
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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Knowledge Philosophy Science
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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Goodness Myself Power Result Thinking Value
I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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Live Myself Philosophy Thinking Wrong
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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End Myself Problem
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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Practice Result Science Sex

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