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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Richard Feynman

To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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Deep Heaven Hell Man Spiritual
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mistake Science Yourself
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Deep Doubt Faith Science
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
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
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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Goodness Myself Power Result Thinking Value
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
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Fools Nature Success Technology
How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Life Value Yourself
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Creation Myself Understand
There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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Danger Future Opportunity Past Time
I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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Live Myself Philosophy Thinking Wrong
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Fools Learning Ourselves Science
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
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

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