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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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Himself People Reading
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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Reason Science Sex
All mass is interaction.
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One Liner Science Space
I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
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Learning Myself Ordinary People Person
I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
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Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Accomplishment Expectation Failure Live Mistake People Responsibility Thinking Yourself
I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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Deep Myself Science Space
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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Mathematics Science Sex
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
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious Yourself
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way–in such a way that often nobody believes me!
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Believe Fake Honesty Myself People Thinking
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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Decision Love Mindset Myself Ruin Thinking Understand
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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Deep Word
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Fools Nature Success Technology

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