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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Richard Feynman

Everything is made of atoms.
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Science Space
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
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Enough Fools Myself
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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Knowledge Philosophy Science
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
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
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
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
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
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Fools Learning Ourselves 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
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
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
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
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
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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Explanation Myself Person Worth
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science

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