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Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.


Richard P. Feynman

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RICHARD FEYNMAN I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
RICHARD FEYNMAN Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
RICHARD FEYNMAN My father had the spirit and integrity of a scientist, but he was a salesman. I remember asking him ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emoti...
RICHARD FEYNMAN I learned from her that every woman is worried
about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.
RICHARD FEYNMAN – and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try...
RICHARD FEYNMAN What Do You Care What Other People Think?
RICHARD FEYNMAN Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and tha...
RICHARD FEYNMAN All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another wa...
RICHARD FEYNMAN The next question was — what makes planets go around the sun? At the time of Kepler some people an...
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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