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I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax

Richard Feynman

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
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
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Beautiful Greatness Nature Simplicity
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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Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand
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.
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Goodness Myself Power Result Thinking Value
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
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Difficult Innovation Reality World
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mistake Science Yourself
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Care People Thinking Yourself
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Character Myself See
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
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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Improvement Ourselves Possible Quick Wrong
How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Life Value Yourself
That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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Education Goodness Learning Problem
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Deep Difference Education Learning Myself Philosophy
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion Science
You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Destroy Fun Life Thinking 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.
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Deep Herself Nature Pieces Reveal
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Belief Ignorance Science
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
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
I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Gratitude Knowledge Myself Purpose Teaching Thinking
Everything is made of atoms.
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Science Space
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 Weakness
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Greatness Imagination Man Nature
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Deep Doubt Faith Science

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