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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

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
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

End Myself Problem
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
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
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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Deep Heaven Hell Man Spiritual
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Care People Thinking Yourself
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
Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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Important Love Science
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
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
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
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Creation Myself Understand
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Enough Fools Myself
The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Game Imagination Myself Play

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