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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 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
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Science Yourself
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious Yourself
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Greatness Imagination Man Nature
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion Science
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Character Myself See
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Expectation Failure Mistake Myself Responsibility
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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Gratitude Knowledge Myself Purpose Teaching Thinking
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.
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Different Evidence Human Science
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Deep Doubt Faith Science
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
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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Language Logic Mathematics Tool
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
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Greatness Necessary Philosophy Science 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!

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