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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

The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Greatness Imagination Man Nature
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Fools Nature Success Technology
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Deep Difference Education Learning Myself Philosophy
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.
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Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand Weakness
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
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Expectation Failure Mistake Myself Responsibility
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
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Honesty Ignorance Independence Willing
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.
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Decision Love Mindset Myself Ruin Thinking Understand
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Age Discovery Live
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
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
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 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
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
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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Believe Man Myself Problem Science
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand

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