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If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Feynman

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Fools Learning Ourselves Science
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Learning World Worth
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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Deep Word
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
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
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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Human Perfection Truth
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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Improvement Ourselves Possible Quick Wrong
How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Life Value Yourself
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
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Science Yourself
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Confidence Inspirational Right 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
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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Explanation Myself Person Worth
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Creation Myself Understand
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
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Beautiful Greatness Nature Simplicity

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