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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Richard Feynman

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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Greatness Necessary Philosophy Science Wrong
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mistake Science Yourself
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Easy Fools Person Principle 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
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
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
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious Yourself
I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Death Hate Myself
How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Life Value 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
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
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.
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Deep Enough Life Philosophy World
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion Science
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Learning World Worth
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

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