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

Richard Feynman

I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Enough Fools Myself
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Different Evidence Human Science
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Accomplishment Expectation Failure Live Mistake People Responsibility Thinking Yourself
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
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Doubt Live Myself Philosophy Wrong
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Death Deep Science
I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Gratitude Knowledge Myself Purpose Teaching Thinking
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Care People Thinking Yourself
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Greatness Imagination Man Nature
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
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Difficult Innovation Reality World
I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Man Myself Smart
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Age Discovery Live
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
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Fools Nature Success Technology

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