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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

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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Learning Myself Ordinary People Person
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
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?
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Beautiful Feeling Myself Night Philosophy Poet Science Stars
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
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
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Reason Science Sex
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
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
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

Feeling Lost Myself Mystery Possible Purpose Scare
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious 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
I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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Live Myself Philosophy Thinking Wrong
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
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
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion Science

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