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

Richard Feynman

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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Believe Man Myself Problem Science
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep 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 you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mistake Science Yourself
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
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Deep Difference Education Learning Myself Philosophy
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 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
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.
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Easy Fools Principle 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
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Discipline Education Possible Yourself
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious Yourself
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
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Deep Myself Philosophy
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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Goodness Myself Power Result Thinking Value
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

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