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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

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.
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Acceptance Herself Hope Mad Myself Nature View
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
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
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
I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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Gratitude Knowledge Myself Purpose Teaching Thinking
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
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Belief Ignorance 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
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Confidence Inspirational Right Yourself
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Learning World Worth
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Mathematics Mystery Nature
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
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
I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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Man Myself Smart
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Difficult Innovation Reality World

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