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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.

Richard Feynman

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
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
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mistake Science Yourself
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion 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
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
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Science 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
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
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Deep Herself Nature Pieces Reveal
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
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Confidence Inspirational Right Yourself
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Discipline Education Possible Yourself
Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Mathematics Mystery Nature
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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Improvement Ourselves Possible Quick Wrong
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

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.

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