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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Richard Feynman

Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Important Love Science
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Goodness Myself Power Result Thinking Value
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Myself Philosophy
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Expectation Failure Mistake Myself Responsibility
You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Destroy Fun Life Thinking Yourself
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Opinion Science
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Decision Love Mindset Myself Ruin Thinking Understand
I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Myself Science Space
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

End Myself Problem
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!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand
I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Gratitude Knowledge Myself Purpose Teaching Thinking
I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Man Myself Smart
I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Father Learning Myself Patience Reading
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Practice Result Science Sex
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Future Thinking Yourself
All mass is interaction.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

One Liner Science Space

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