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I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

Richard Feynman

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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Beautiful Greatness Nature Simplicity
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.
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Goodness Myself Power Result Thinking Value
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
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Death Deep Science
I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
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Father Learning Myself Patience Reading
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Science Yourself
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
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Greatness Necessary Philosophy Science Wrong
The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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Himself People Reading
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
Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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Important Love Science
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
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
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Accomplishment Expectation Failure Live Mistake People Responsibility Thinking Yourself
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Discipline Education Possible Yourself
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
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Deep Doubt Faith Science

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