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

Richard Feynman

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
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious Yourself
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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Mathematics Science Sex
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.
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Acceptance Herself Hope Mad Myself Nature View
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Life Value Yourself
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.
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Feeling Lost Myself Mystery Possible Purpose Scare
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Discipline Education Possible Yourself
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
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
The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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Himself People Reading
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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Deep Word
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
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

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