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I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.

Richard Feynman

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Belief Ignorance Science
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mistake Science Yourself
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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Language Logic Mathematics Tool
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Beautiful Greatness Nature Simplicity
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
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Education Intelligence Yourself
I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
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Feeling Lost Myself Mystery Possible Purpose Scare
I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Learning Myself Ordinary People Person
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Learning World Worth
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Creation Myself Understand
It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Beautiful Science Smart Theory Wrong Yourself
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
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Fools Nature Success Technology
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion Science
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing

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