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

Richard Feynman

Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Yourself
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Greatness Necessary Philosophy Science Wrong
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
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 Weakness
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Confidence Inspirational Right Yourself
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.
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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
Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Enjoyment Thankful
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
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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Beautiful Feeling Myself Night Philosophy Poet Science Stars
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
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Difficult Innovation Reality World
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Herself Nature Pieces Reveal
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Enough Life Philosophy World
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

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