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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.

Richard Feynman

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
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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Knowledge Philosophy Science
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
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
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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End Learning Life Live Mistake Yourself
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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Practice Result Science Sex
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Age Discovery Live
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
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Fools Nature Success Technology
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
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
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Game Imagination Myself Play
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
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Enough Fools Myself
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 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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