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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

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

Serious Yourself
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Philosophy Science
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 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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Easy Fools Principle Science 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 Weakness
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
I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
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Deep Myself Science Space
Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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Important Love Science
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Education Intelligence Yourself
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
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Character Myself See
All mass is interaction.
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One Liner Science Space
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Future Thinking Yourself
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Age Discovery Live
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Creation Myself Understand
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Human Perfection Truth
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Fools Learning Ourselves Science
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
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy 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!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand
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
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Enough Fools Myself
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
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Opinion Science
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Believe Man Myself Problem Science
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

End Myself Problem

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