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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.

Richard Feynman

You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Confidence Inspirational Right Yourself
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Deep Doubt Faith Science
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
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
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Fools Nature Success Technology
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Character Myself See
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Learning World Worth
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
People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way–in such a way that often nobody believes me!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Believe Fake Honesty Myself People Thinking
I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Learning Myself Ordinary People Person
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
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Death Hate Myself
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
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Herself Nature Pieces Reveal

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