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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

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

Deep Difference Education Learning Myself Philosophy
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Beautiful Science Smart Theory Wrong Yourself
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
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Learning World Worth
I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Death Hate Myself
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 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
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Easy Fools Person Principle Yourself
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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Explanation Myself Person Worth
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

End Myself Problem
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
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Confidence Inspirational Right Yourself
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Discipline Education Possible Yourself
Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Mathematics Mystery Nature
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Science 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

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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