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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

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

Explanation Myself Person Worth
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Animal Philosophy Science
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Difference Education Learning Myself Philosophy
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
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Enough Heart Love Science Son Yourself
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Fools Nature Success Technology
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Feeling Lost Myself Mystery Possible Purpose Scare
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Learning World Worth
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Language Logic Mathematics Tool
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Opinion Science
I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Myself Science Space
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Acceptance Herself Hope Mad Myself Nature View
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Practice Result Science Sex
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Learning Myself Ordinary People Person
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Word
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Confidence Inspirational Right Yourself
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

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