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

Richard Feynman

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
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Learning World Worth
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
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
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
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
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Mistake Science Yourself
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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Game Imagination Myself Play
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Age Discovery Live
How much do you value life? Sixty-four.
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Life Value 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
All mass is interaction.
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One Liner Science Space
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 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.
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Feeling Lost Myself Mystery Possible Purpose Scare
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Fools Learning Ourselves Science
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
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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Deep Heaven Hell Man Spiritual
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
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
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End Learning Life Live Mistake Yourself
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
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
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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Creation Myself Understand
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
$Richard Feynman Quote - Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.$

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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Mathematics Science Sex
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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