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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Care People Thinking Yourself
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
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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Future Thinking Yourself
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mistake Science Yourself
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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Beautiful Feeling Myself Night Philosophy Poet Science Stars
Everything is made of atoms.
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Science Space
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.
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Danger Future Opportunity Past Time
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
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
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
It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
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Beautiful Science Smart Theory Wrong Yourself
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
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Discipline Education Possible Yourself
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
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion Science

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