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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.

Richard Feynman

Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Greatness Imagination Man Nature
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
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
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
I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
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Feeling Lost Myself Mystery Possible Purpose Scare
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Fools Nature Success Technology
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Learning World Worth
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Easy Fools Principle Science Yourself
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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Destroy Fun Life Thinking Yourself
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
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Easy Fools Person Principle Yourself
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.
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Beautiful Science Smart Theory Wrong Yourself
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
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Belief Ignorance Science
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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Important Love Science
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
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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Reason Science Sex
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Future Thinking Yourself
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 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
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Death Hate Myself
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Enough Fools Myself
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
$Richard Feynman Quote - Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.$

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Mathematics Science Sex

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