Richard Feynman Quotes

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Beautiful Greatness Nature Simplicity
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.
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Destroy Fun Life Thinking Yourself
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.
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Feeling Lost Myself Mystery Possible Purpose Scare
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.
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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.
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Deep Heaven Hell Man Spiritual
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
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Deep Herself Nature Pieces Reveal
Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Mathematics Mystery Nature
I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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Greatness Imagination Man Myself Nature Thinking
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Age Discovery Live
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!
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Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand
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.
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Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand Weakness
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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Future Thinking Yourself
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.
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Decision Love Mindset Myself Ruin Thinking Understand
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Deep Doubt Faith Science
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Deep Difference Education Learning Myself Philosophy
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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Practice Result Science Sex
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Confidence Inspirational Right Yourself
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Education Intelligence Yourself
I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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Live Myself Philosophy Thinking Wrong
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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End Myself Problem
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.
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Accomplishment Expectation Failure Live Mistake People Responsibility Thinking Yourself
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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Believe Man Myself Problem Science
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Greatness Imagination Man Nature
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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Beautiful Feeling Myself Night Philosophy Poet Science Stars
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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Improvement Ourselves Possible Quick Wrong
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Care People Thinking Yourself

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