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Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

Richard Feynman

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Fools Nature Success Technology
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
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
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
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
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
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
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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Decision Love Mindset Myself Ruin Thinking Understand
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Fools Learning Ourselves Science
Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Mathematics Mystery Nature
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
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
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
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Belief Ignorance Science

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