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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

All mass is interaction.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

One Liner Science Space
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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Goodness Myself Power Result Thinking Value
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
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
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Learning World Worth
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Belief Ignorance Science
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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Reason Science Sex
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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Knowledge Philosophy Science
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Fools Nature Success Technology
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
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 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.
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Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand Weakness
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Deep Doubt Faith Science
I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Death Hate Myself
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
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
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion Science
The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Game Imagination Myself Play
Everything is made of atoms.
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Science Space
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
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Character Myself See
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Expectation Failure Mistake Myself Responsibility
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mistake Science Yourself
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Authority Decision Goodness Ideas

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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