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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.

Richard Feynman

Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Important Love Science
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Enough Heart Love Science Son Yourself
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Greatness Imagination Man Nature
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!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Beautiful Science Smart Theory Wrong Yourself
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious Yourself
I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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Deep Myself Science Space
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Myself Philosophy
I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Gratitude Knowledge Myself Purpose Teaching Thinking
I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Man Myself Smart
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Care People Thinking Yourself
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Age Discovery Live
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
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Discipline Education Possible Yourself
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Himself People Reading
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

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

Reason Science Sex
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Mistake Science Yourself
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Future Thinking Yourself
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Animal Philosophy Science
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Science Yourself
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Character Myself See
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Death Hate Myself
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Expectation Failure Mistake Myself Responsibility

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