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 P. Feynman
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CHRIS NOTH If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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VANILLA ICE Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.
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DAVID LEE ROTH It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. Th...
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AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS It doesn't matter are you good with the dice, you die. It really doesn't matter what are you doing e...
DEYTH BANGER Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.
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GRACIA MARTORE Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
JACK BENNY The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.
ALAN MOORE Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn't matter how much money you make.
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EDDY CUE If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more tree...
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MARK LAWRENSON People who think it doesn't matter who owns our auto industry are flat wrong.
ROBERT LUTZ Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating...
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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE If we can win games, it doesn't matter who is scoring.
KRISTAPS PORZINGIS If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!
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MARC ANDREESSEN It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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DEYTH BANGER ..."SORRY."...
Just doesn't cut it anymore!
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CASEY JAMES If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.
DON JOHNSON It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity.
WILLIE GEIST It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you....
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PARK CHAN-WOOK If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu.
HESTON BLUMENTHAL If Home Depot doesn't have it, Mark Bradford doesn't need it.
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AUNJANUE ELLIS Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
THOMAS A. EDISON It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.
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BEN SHAPIRO If someone can't behave with their colleagues and can't be part of the culture, it doesn'...
BOB DIAMOND I've done nudity. I'm an exhibitionist. It doesn't matter.
JOHN TURTURRO Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
CAM GIGANDET In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any dif...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
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OLIVIA COOKE It doesn't matter how hard you work, there are forces that kind of prevent you from being the be...
SHAHID KHAN I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
OSCAR TAVERAS People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.
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JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
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PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.
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VINT CERF Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me.
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RICHARD FEYNMAN All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another wa...
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RICHARD FEYNMAN So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impo...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
RICHARD FEYNMAN A poet once said, 'The whole universe is in a glass of wine.' We will probably never know in what se...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it d...
RICHARD FEYNMAN The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
RICHARD FEYNMAN Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing i...
RICHARD FEYNMAN There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they ar...
RICHARD FEYNMAN I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about w...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool fo...
RICHARD FEYNMAN If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind o...
RICHARD FEYNMAN All television is children's television.
RICHARD P. ADLER You can only stumble if you are moving.
RICHARD P. CARLTON The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as yo...
RICHARD P. DENNEY A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.
RICHARD P. DENNEY Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder ...
RICHARD P. KLUFT The summary of Lambert and Lillenfelt’s “Bloodstains” in Scientific American Mind in the Octob...
RICHARD P. KLUFT It is clear that the Vatican does not know what a theologian is and what a university is.
RICHARD P. MCBRIEN As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government a...
P. SATHASIVAM If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take...
P. CHIDAMBARAM I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are a...
P. CHIDAMBARAM When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a commi...
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