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How much do you value life? Sixty-four.

Richard Feynman

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
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Reason Science Sex
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Enough Fools Myself
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
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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Improvement Ourselves Possible Quick Wrong
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
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Doubt Live Myself Philosophy Wrong
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Character Myself See
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Beautiful Greatness Nature Simplicity
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
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
Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
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Enjoyment Thankful
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
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Creation Myself Understand
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Science Yourself
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
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Fools Nature Success Technology
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Discipline Education Possible Yourself
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
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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Care People Thinking Yourself
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
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Decision Love Mindset Myself Ruin Thinking Understand
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.
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Beautiful Science Smart Theory Wrong Yourself
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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Believe Man Myself Problem Science
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
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
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
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Education Intelligence Yourself

How much do you value life? Sixty-four.

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