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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman

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
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
Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Acceptance Herself Hope Mad Myself Nature View
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Greatness Necessary Philosophy Science Wrong
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Myself Philosophy
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Decision Love Mindset Myself Ruin Thinking Understand
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Serious 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 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
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Age Discovery Live
All mass is interaction.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

One Liner Science Space
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
I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Live Myself Philosophy Thinking Wrong
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Yourself
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Heaven Hell Man Spiritual
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Difference Education Learning Myself Philosophy
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Accomplishment Expectation Failure Live Mistake People Responsibility Thinking Yourself
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

End Myself Problem
How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

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

Character Myself See
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Explanation Myself Person Worth
I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Father Learning Myself Patience Reading
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
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Believe Man Myself Problem Science
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Learning World Worth
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Confidence Inspirational Right Yourself

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