Richard Feynman Famous Quotes
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
"Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next"
"Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong."
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."
Richard Feynman Quotations
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
Billie Holiday
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
Marion Shepilov Barry Jr
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.
Belle Livingstone
"When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death."
J P Donleavy
"Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."
J D Salinger
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
Confucius
"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
La Rochefoucauld
"The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not."
Ralph Waldo Emerson