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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Richard Feynman

How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Life Value Yourself
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
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 Weakness
The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Game Imagination Myself Play
I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
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Father Learning Myself Patience Reading
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
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
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Deep Difference Education Learning Myself Philosophy
Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Mathematics Mystery Nature
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
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
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Deep Doubt Faith Science
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
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.
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Learning Myself Ordinary People Person

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