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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

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
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
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
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
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Deep Herself Nature Pieces Reveal
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Care People Thinking Yourself
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Age Discovery Live
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Creation Myself Understand
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
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Destroy Fun Life Thinking Yourself
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
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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Different Evidence Human Science
Everything is made of atoms.
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Science Space
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Belief Ignorance Science
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
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

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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