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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman

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
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
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
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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Deep Word
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
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
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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Explanation Myself Person Worth
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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Mathematics Science Sex
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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Man Myself Smart
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.
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Beautiful Science Smart Theory Wrong Yourself
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Fools Learning Ourselves 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
All mass is interaction.
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One Liner Science Space
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Age Discovery Live
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
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

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