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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.

Richard Feynman

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Explanation Myself Person Worth
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Enough Fools Myself
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!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Believe Fake Honesty Myself People Thinking
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Language Logic Mathematics Tool
Everything is made of atoms.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Science Space
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Human Perfection Truth
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Philosophy Science
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Enough Heart Love Science Son Yourself
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Age Discovery Live
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Believe Man Myself Problem Science
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Greatness Imagination Man Nature
I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Gratitude Knowledge Myself Purpose Teaching Thinking
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Expectation Failure Mistake Myself Responsibility
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Easy Fools Principle Science Yourself
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Discipline Education Possible Yourself

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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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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