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That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.

Richard Feynman

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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Deep Word
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mistake Science Yourself
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
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Learning World Worth
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
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.
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Learning Myself Ordinary People Person
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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Knowledge Philosophy Science
Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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Important Love Science
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
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Enough Heart Love Science Son Yourself
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
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Character Myself See
The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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Himself People Reading
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

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