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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

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
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Fools Nature Success Technology
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
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Opinion Science
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Beautiful Greatness Nature Simplicity
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Fools Learning Ourselves Science
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Animal Philosophy Science
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Goodness Myself Power Result Thinking Value
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

End Myself Problem
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!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand
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
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
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Age Discovery Live
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Serious Yourself
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Science Yourself
You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Destroy Fun Life Thinking Yourself

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