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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Richard Feynman

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 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
Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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Enjoyment Thankful
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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End Learning Life Live Mistake Yourself
Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
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Acceptance Herself Hope Mad Myself Nature View
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious 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
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
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy 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
$Richard Feynman Quote - Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.$

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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Mathematics Science Sex
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
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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Future Thinking Yourself
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Deep Doubt Faith Science

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