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I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

Richard Feynman

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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Future Thinking Yourself
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
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.
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Acceptance Herself Hope Mad Myself Nature View
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
I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
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Father Learning Myself Patience Reading
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
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.
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Accomplishment Expectation Failure Live Mistake People Responsibility Thinking Yourself
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
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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End Myself Problem
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
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
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
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Care People Thinking Yourself
I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Death Hate Myself
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

I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

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