Richard Feynman Quotes

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.
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Goodness Myself Power Result Thinking Value
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!
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Believe Fake Honesty Myself People Thinking
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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Human Perfection Truth
Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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Important Love 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
Everything is made of atoms.
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Science Space
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.
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Different Evidence Human Science
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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Knowledge Philosophy Science
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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Deep Myself Philosophy
That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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Education Goodness Learning Problem
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
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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Language Logic Mathematics Tool
I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
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Learning Myself Ordinary People Person
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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Mathematics Science Sex
How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Life Value Yourself
The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Game Imagination Myself Play
All mass is interaction.
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One Liner Science Space
Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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Enjoyment Thankful
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Enough Fools Myself
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Belief Ignorance Science
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
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
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Enough Heart Love Science Son Yourself
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
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Doubt Live Myself Philosophy Wrong
The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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Himself People Reading
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious Yourself
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Learning World Worth

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