Richard Feynman Quotes

Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Difficult Innovation Reality World
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mistake Science Yourself
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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End Learning Life Live Mistake Yourself
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Character Myself See
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
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Creation Myself Understand
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Fools Learning Ourselves Science
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion Science
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Fools Nature Success Technology
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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Deep Enough Life Philosophy World
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Easy Fools Person Principle Yourself
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 have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Expectation Failure Mistake Myself Responsibility
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Discipline Education Possible 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.
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Father Learning Myself Patience Reading
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Science Yourself
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
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!
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Existence Necessary Philosophy Result Science
I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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Man Myself Smart
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Easy Fools Principle Science Yourself
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.
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Beautiful Science Smart Theory Wrong Yourself
I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Death Hate Myself
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 a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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Deep Myself Science Space

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