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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

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!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Existence Necessary Philosophy Result Science
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
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
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Deep Doubt Faith Science
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Science Yourself
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
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
Everything is made of atoms.
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Science Space
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Father Learning Myself Patience Reading
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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Beautiful Feeling Myself Night Philosophy Poet Science Stars
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mistake Science Yourself
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
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
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion Science
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

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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