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I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.

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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Destroy Fun Life Thinking Yourself
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Mistake Science Yourself
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Expectation Failure Mistake Myself Responsibility
I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Father Learning Myself Patience Reading
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
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Difficult Innovation Reality World
It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Beautiful Science Smart Theory Wrong 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!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand
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 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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Learning Myself Ordinary People Person
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Reason Science Sex
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Learning World Worth
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
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Fools Learning Ourselves Science
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Deep Difference Education Learning Myself Philosophy

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