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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard Feynman

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
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Beautiful Greatness Nature Simplicity
All mass is interaction.
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One Liner Science Space
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion Science
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
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
Everything is made of atoms.
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Science Space
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
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
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 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
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Care People Thinking 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
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
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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Deep Myself Philosophy
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Character Myself See
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
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
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
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Science Yourself
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
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Difficult Innovation Reality World
I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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Deep Myself Science Space
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
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
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science

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