Richard Feynman Quotes

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

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• When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Picture
  • Doubt

• I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Good
  • Free

• There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Question
  • Kings

• I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Question

• The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Time
  • God
  • Doubt

• We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Question
  • Technology
  • Need

• I'm not going to doubt my life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Doubt
  • My Life

• Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Question
  • Right
  • Choose

• It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • World
  • Future
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• Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Good
  • American
  • Question

• There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Religion
  • Doubt
  • Matters

• Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Question
  • Old
  • Youth

• I have slavishly dedicated myself to the construction of an image that nobody but me sees. Nobody but me is pondering the question: How does Maggie Rowe stack up against others as an overall human being?

  

  Maggie Rowe
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• There has no doubt to be fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important for new improvements and changes in our techniques.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
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  • Science
  • Doubt

• The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Long
  • Death

• So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Question

• Hassan's not going anywhere. He's staying right here with us, where he belongs. This is his home and we're his family. Don't you ever ask me that question again!

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Family
  • Home
  • Question

• I know when my father travelled 5,000 miles to make his home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to be its leader.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Father

• The sun has a sense of all-pervasive brilliance, which does not discriminate in the slightest. It is the goodness that exists in a situation, in oneself, and in one's world, which is expressed without doubt, hesitation, or regret. The sun principle also includes the notion of blessings descending upon us and creating sacred world. It also represents clarity, without doubt.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Sun

• Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it. Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Science
  • Faith

• Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

  

  John Maeda
  • Good
  • Design

• There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Question
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