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I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

Richard Feynman

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.
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Greatness Necessary Philosophy Science Wrong
The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Game Imagination Myself Play
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 Weakness
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion Science
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Creation Myself Understand
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
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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Language Logic Mathematics Tool
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
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
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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End Myself Problem
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
I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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Gratitude Knowledge Myself Purpose Teaching Thinking
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
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Enough Fools Myself
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Education Intelligence Yourself

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