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

Richard Feynman

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Improvement Ourselves Possible Quick Wrong
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Future 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
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Learning World Worth
Everything is made of atoms.
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Science Space
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Enough Heart Love Science Son Yourself
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand Weakness
Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
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Acceptance Herself Hope Mad Myself Nature View
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
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Greatness Imagination Man Nature
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Learning Myself Ordinary People Person
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
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 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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Feeling Lost Myself Mystery Possible Purpose Scare

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