Richard Feynman Quotes

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

Richard Feynman

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• I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Me
  • Certain

• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Brain
  • Air
  • Body

• You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Different
  • Care
  • Weird

• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
  • Political
  • Community
  • Body

• Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Certain
  • Vampire
  • Almost

• Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Body
  • Create
  • Strange

• I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.

  

  Kajol
  • Body
  • Exercise
  • Working

• Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Body
  • Walking
  • Repetition

• The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Cool

• Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Important
  • Power
  • Body

• The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Body
  • My Life

• I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Work
  • Body
  • Voice

• It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Knowledge
  • Body
  • Changing

• Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Age
  • Body
  • Civilization

• For my money, celery hasn't got a mean bit of fibre in its body, and we all need to start being much nicer to it.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Money
  • Body
  • Start

• Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

  

  Ovid
  • Water
  • Body
  • How

• Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Body
  • Ability
  • Grow

• The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

  

  Norman O. Brown
  • Body
  • Creation
  • Substance

• The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Difference
  • United States
  • Dyspepsia

• Bush's life is that a fundamentally decent man presided over a moment when politics got meaner and rougher. '88 was the year of the handler, of bringing in political consultants who played very hard and very tough.

  

  Evan Thomas
  • Politics
  • Played
  • Consultants

• Taking the cure is going to be difficult for you. You have red hair—lots of energy, you’re quick, active, impatient. All bad for tuberculosis. Discipline will be hard for you. The cure of tuberculosis is all discipline.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Energy
  • Discipline
  • Cure

• At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • House
  • City
  • Road

• Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Body
  • Certain
  • Degrees