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

Richard Feynman

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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Different Evidence Human Science
The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Game Imagination Myself Play
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
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Creation Myself Understand
That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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Education Goodness Learning Problem
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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Decision Love Mindset Myself Ruin Thinking Understand
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
You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
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Destroy Fun Life Thinking Yourself
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
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
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Deep Herself Nature Pieces Reveal
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Discipline Education Possible Yourself
I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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Deep Myself Science Space
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
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
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Difficult Innovation Reality World
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
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Education Intelligence Yourself
A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
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Existence Necessary Philosophy Result Science
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
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Greatness Imagination Man Nature
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Care People Thinking 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!
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Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand

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