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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.

Richard Feynman

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
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Believe Man Myself Problem 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
The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Game Imagination Myself Play
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
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Care People Thinking Yourself
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Belief Ignorance Science
There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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Danger Future Opportunity Past Time
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
Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Mathematics Mystery Nature
All mass is interaction.
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One Liner Science Space
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Learning World Worth
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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Greatness Necessary Philosophy Science Wrong
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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Future Thinking Yourself
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Enough Fools Myself
That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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Education Goodness Learning Problem

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