Richard Feynman Quotes

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

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• With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • You

• I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Way
  • Idea

• My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Situation

• To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • May
  • Way
  • Say

• The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Envy

• One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

  

  J. B. Morton
  • May
  • Wife
  • Moment

• Giving opens the way for receiving.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Wisdom

• I have failed at times, but I never stopped trying.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Trying

• I've had enough of danger And people on the streets I'm looking out for angels Just trying to find some peace Now I think it's time That you let me know So if you love me Say you love me But if you don't just let me go...

  

  George Michael
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look at why they're going faster and what effect they have on us. We all know about FedEx and instant pudding, but it doesn't mean we've looked at all the consequences of our desire for speed.

  

  James Gleick
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Trying

• I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that fall within rules.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Trying
  • Law
  • Fall

• It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say.

  

  Kyra Sedgwick
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Sex

• I'd love to be in action movies. I've been trying to convince people. I don't think it's anything physical holding me back. I think it's a general vibe thing that's holding me back. I don't project action confidence, maybe.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • People
  • Trying
  • Action

• I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.

  

  Neko Case
  • People
  • Trying
  • Animal

• The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of my album to be in my voice because it's my point of view.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Focus

• As a working mom, you're running around all the time, and you're trying to figure out what can my kid eat that's healthy because, I guess, I'm 'supposed to do that.'

  

  Anna Faris
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Running

• The holidays are only overwhelming because it's crunch time. It's like everyone trying to get last-minute things in before the New Year starts.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Time
  • Trying

• All of my babies know that I preach all day... I ain't trying to hide no light under no bushel. Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.

  

  Betty Wright
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Light

• When the Obama administration passed the net neutrality rules in 2015, even when we were winning, I favored trying to get these rules in a statute, because I feel that the best way to establish predictability for the marketplace is to make sure they're not subject to the whims of a partisan vote at the FCC.

  

  Brian Schatz
  • Trying
  • Winning

• Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Time

• The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

  

  John Larroquette
  • Done

• The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

  

  Christopher Dawson
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

  

  Dick Pound
  • America
  • Language
  • Speak

• Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Trying
  • Way
  • Fool