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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

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
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Mistake Science Yourself
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Greatness Imagination Man Nature
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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Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand
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
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
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
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
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
I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Death Hate Myself
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Fools Learning Ourselves 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
How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Life Value Yourself
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Philosophy Science
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Age Discovery Live

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