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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 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
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Creation Myself Understand
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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Deep Heaven Hell Man Spiritual
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Learning World Worth
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
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Serious Yourself
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
All mass is interaction.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

One Liner Science Space
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Mistake Science Yourself
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Himself People Reading
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Fools Learning Ourselves Science
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
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Improvement Ourselves Possible Quick Wrong
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
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Different Evidence Human Science

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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