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The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.

Richard Feynman

I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Gratitude Knowledge Myself Purpose Teaching Thinking
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
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
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
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Enough Fools Myself
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Fools Learning Ourselves Science
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
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
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
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
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious Yourself
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
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Difficult Innovation Reality World
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself

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