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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Richard Feynman

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 can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Science Yourself
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
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Fools Learning Ourselves Science
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
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 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
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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Deep Myself Philosophy
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
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Greatness Imagination Man Nature
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
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
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
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
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’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Death Hate Myself

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