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I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

Richard Feynman

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 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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Accomplishment Expectation Failure Live Mistake People Responsibility Thinking Yourself
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
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 Weakness
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Philosophy Science
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Enough Heart Love Science Son Yourself
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Greatness Necessary Philosophy Science Wrong
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Heaven Hell Man Spiritual
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Doubt Faith Science
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Different Evidence Human Science
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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Explanation Myself Person Worth
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 learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Difference Education Learning Myself Philosophy
It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Beautiful Science Smart Theory Wrong Yourself
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Easy Fools Person Principle Yourself
Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Important Love Science

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