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

Richard Feynman

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
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious Yourself
Everything is made of atoms.
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Science Space
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Discipline Education Possible Yourself
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
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
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
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
Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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Mathematics Mystery Nature
I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
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Greatness Imagination Man Myself Nature Thinking
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Belief Ignorance Science
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
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Enough Fools Myself
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
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Confidence Inspirational Right Yourself
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Easy Fools Principle Science Yourself

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