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Everything is made of atoms.

Richard Feynman

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
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
A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
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Existence Necessary Philosophy Result Science
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious Yourself
That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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Education Goodness Learning Problem
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
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.
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Human Perfection Truth
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
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Character Myself See
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Easy Fools Person Principle Yourself
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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Practice Result Science Sex
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
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
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
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
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
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
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Opinion Science

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