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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

In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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Human Perfection Truth
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Difficult Innovation Reality World
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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End Myself Problem
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Greatness Imagination Man Nature
The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Game Imagination Myself Play
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Confidence Inspirational Right Yourself
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
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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Knowledge Philosophy Science
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Science Yourself
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious Yourself
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
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Doubt Live Myself Philosophy Wrong
Everything is made of atoms.
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Science Space
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Accomplishment Expectation Failure Live Mistake People Responsibility Thinking Yourself
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
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Enough Heart Love Science Son Yourself

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