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I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Richard Feynman

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
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Difficult Innovation Reality World
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
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
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
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
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Belief Ignorance Science
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
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
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
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
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
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Enough Fools Myself
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
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

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