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Richard P. Feynman

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Pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous fools – guys who are fools and covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus – THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
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Topic: Funny
All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't.
From Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Topic: Funny, Inspirational, Success
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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Topic: Philosophical
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Topic: Death
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Topic: Education
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Topic: Philosophical
When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles.

The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!"

"Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.
From Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Topic: Funny
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
From Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Topic: Education, Funny
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened 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.
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Topic: Philosophical
Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.
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Topic: Philosophical
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
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Topic: Philosophical
Pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous fools – guys who are fools and covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus – THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
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Topic: Funny
All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't.
From Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Topic: Funny, Inspirational, Success
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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Topic: Philosophical
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Topic: Death
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Topic: Education
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Topic: Philosophical
When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles.

The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!"

"Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.
From Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Topic: Funny
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
From Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Topic: Education, Funny
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened 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.
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Topic: Philosophical
Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.
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Topic: Philosophical
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
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Topic: Philosophical
Pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous fools – guys who are fools and covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus – THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
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Topic: Funny
All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't.
From Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Topic: Funny, Inspirational, Success
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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Topic: Philosophical
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
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Topic: Death
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Topic: Education
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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Topic: Philosophical
When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles.

The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!"

"Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.
From Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Topic: Funny
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
From Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Topic: Education, Funny
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened 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.
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Topic: Philosophical
Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.
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Topic: Philosophical
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
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Topic: Philosophical