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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard Feynman

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
Everything is made of atoms.
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Science Space
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
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
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
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Creation Myself Understand
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Difficult Innovation Reality World
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
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
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
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Deep Doubt Faith Science
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep 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
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
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

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