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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

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
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
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Enough Heart Love Science Son Yourself
How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Life Value Yourself
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious Yourself
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Confidence Inspirational Right Yourself
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Greatness Imagination Man Nature
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
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
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
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Belief Ignorance Science
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
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
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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Decision Love Mindset Myself Ruin Thinking Understand
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
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
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Deep Doubt Faith Science
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Fools Nature Success Technology
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
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
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
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Education Intelligence Yourself
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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Reason Science Sex
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
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.
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Human Perfection Truth
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep 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
Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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Important Love Science

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