I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
RICHARD FEYNMANNature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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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!
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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.
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All mass is interaction.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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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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Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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