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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.

Richard Feynman

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
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Expectation Failure Mistake Myself Responsibility
Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Acceptance Herself Hope Mad Myself Nature View
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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Deep Heaven Hell Man Spiritual
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Enough Fools Myself
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Future Thinking Yourself
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.
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Human Perfection Truth
I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Live Myself Philosophy Thinking Wrong
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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Improvement Ourselves Possible Quick Wrong
That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Education Goodness Learning Problem
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Character Myself See
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Difficult Innovation Reality World
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
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Greatness Necessary Philosophy Science Wrong
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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Believe Man Myself Problem Science
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Education Intelligence Yourself

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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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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