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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Richard Feynman

I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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Decision Love Mindset Myself Ruin Thinking Understand
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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Deep Word
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Education Intelligence Yourself
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
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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End Learning Life Live Mistake Yourself
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Difficult Innovation Reality World
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mistake Science Yourself
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Character Myself See
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Confidence Inspirational Right 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
Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Mathematics Mystery Nature
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Beautiful Greatness Nature Simplicity
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Belief Ignorance Science
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

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