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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

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

Explanation Myself Person Worth
There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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Danger Future Opportunity Past Time
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Character Myself See
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Improvement Ourselves Possible Quick Wrong
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Human Perfection Truth
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Greatness Imagination Man Nature
I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Death Hate Myself
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
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Difficult Innovation Reality World
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
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Discipline Education Possible Yourself
I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Enough Fools Myself
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
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Enough Heart Love Science Son Yourself
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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Mathematics Science Sex
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Beautiful Science Smart Theory Wrong Yourself
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

End Learning Life Live Mistake Yourself
I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Learning Myself Ordinary People Person
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Fools Learning Ourselves Science
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Decision Love Mindset Myself Ruin Thinking Understand
If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Mistake Science Yourself
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
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
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
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
I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Father Learning Myself Patience Reading
Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Mathematics Mystery Nature
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
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.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Himself People Reading

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