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People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way–in such a way that often nobody believes me!

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

Explanation Myself Person Worth
I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Death Hate Myself
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Death Deep Science
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Language Logic Mathematics Tool
I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Feeling Lost Myself Mystery Possible Purpose Scare
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Belief Ignorance Science
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Care People Thinking Yourself
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
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
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Existence Necessary Philosophy Result Science
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
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Opinion Science

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