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

Richard Feynman

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Believe Man Myself Problem Science
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Mistake Science Yourself
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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End Myself Problem
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Creation Myself Understand
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 Weakness
Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Mathematics Mystery Nature
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Fools Nature Success Technology
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Accomplishment Expectation Failure Live Mistake People Responsibility Thinking 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
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
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Enough Life Philosophy World
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
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Expectation Failure Mistake Myself Responsibility
I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Death Hate Myself

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