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

Richard Feynman

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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Practice Result Science Sex
I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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Greatness Imagination Man Myself Nature Thinking
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
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
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
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
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Discipline Education Possible Yourself
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
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
The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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Himself People Reading
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
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Enough Heart Love Science Son 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 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
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.
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Greatness Necessary Philosophy Science Wrong
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Care People Thinking 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

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