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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

I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Expectation Failure Mistake Myself Responsibility
I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Live Myself Philosophy Thinking Wrong
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Confidence Inspirational Right Yourself
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
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Doubt Live Myself Philosophy Wrong
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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Himself People Reading
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Deep Doubt Faith Science
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
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Accomplishment Expectation Failure Live Mistake People Responsibility Thinking Yourself
I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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Greatness Imagination Man Myself Nature Thinking
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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Believe Man Myself Problem Science
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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Explanation Myself Person Worth
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mistake Science Yourself
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
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Existence Necessary Philosophy Result Science
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Greatness Imagination Man Nature
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Creation Myself Understand
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
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion Science
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
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.
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Learning Myself Ordinary People Person
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Philosophy Science
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Difference Education Learning Myself Philosophy
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
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Difficult Innovation Reality World
I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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Man Myself Smart
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

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