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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Easy Fools Principle Science Yourself
I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Gratitude Knowledge Myself Purpose Teaching Thinking
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Belief Ignorance Science
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Heaven Hell Man Spiritual
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

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

Live Myself Philosophy Thinking Wrong
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Doubt Live Myself Philosophy Wrong
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Serious Yourself
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Danger Future Opportunity Past Time
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Learning World Worth
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Mistake Science Yourself
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Explanation Myself Person Worth
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Fools Learning Ourselves Science
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Herself Nature Pieces Reveal
I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Father Learning Myself Patience Reading
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Expectation Failure Mistake Myself Responsibility

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