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

Richard Feynman

I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Enough Fools Myself
I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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Greatness Imagination Man Myself Nature Thinking
I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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Live Myself Philosophy Thinking Wrong
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Learning World Worth
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Greatness Imagination Man Nature
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious Yourself
Everything is made of atoms.
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Science Space
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
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
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Care People Thinking Yourself
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
A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
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Existence Necessary Philosophy Result Science
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Age Discovery Live
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.
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Feeling Lost Myself Mystery Possible Purpose Scare
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion Science
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
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
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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End Learning Life Live Mistake Yourself
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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Deep Myself Philosophy
Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Mathematics Mystery Nature
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
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
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
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
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
Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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Important Love Science

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