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

Richard Feynman

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 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
I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
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Learning Myself Ordinary People Person
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
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Doubt Live Myself Philosophy Wrong
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
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Science Yourself
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Fools Learning Ourselves 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
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
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
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.
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End Myself Problem
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

Easy Fools Principle Science Yourself
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
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Care People Thinking Yourself
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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Beautiful Feeling Myself Night Philosophy Poet Science Stars

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