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Richard Feynman

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
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 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
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
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Language Logic Mathematics Tool
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Belief Ignorance Science
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion Science
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
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
I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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Man Myself Smart
Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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Enjoyment Thankful
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
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
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
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Age Discovery Live
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
All mass is interaction.
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One Liner Science Space
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
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious 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
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.
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Feeling Lost Myself Mystery Possible Purpose Scare
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Confidence Inspirational Right Yourself
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Character Myself See
People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way–in such a way that often nobody believes me!
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Believe Fake Honesty Myself People Thinking
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
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
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Education Intelligence Yourself
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing

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