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

Richard Feynman

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
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Enough Life Philosophy World
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Discipline Education Possible Yourself
How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Life Value Yourself
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Yourself
All mass is interaction.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

One Liner Science Space
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Goodness Myself Power Result Thinking Value
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!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Believe Fake Honesty Myself People Thinking
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
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?
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Beautiful Feeling Myself Night Philosophy Poet Science Stars
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Animal Philosophy Science
I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Greatness Imagination Man Myself Nature Thinking
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Opinion Science
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Education Intelligence Yourself
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

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