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

Richard Feynman

I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
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Learning Myself Ordinary People Person
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Belief Ignorance Science
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mistake Science Yourself
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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Knowledge Philosophy Science
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Greatness Imagination Man Nature
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
People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way–in such a way that often nobody believes me!
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Believe Fake Honesty Myself People Thinking
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Age Discovery Live
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Character Myself See
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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Different Evidence Human Science
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’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Enough Fools Myself
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
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
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

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