Richard Feynman Quotes

To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.

Richard Feynman

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• There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.

  

  Hanna Rosin
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• I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Work
  • Women
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• Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
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• Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

  

  Maimonides
  • Know
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  • Teach

• When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful.

  

  Harold Prince
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  • Me
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• The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
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  • Challenge
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• As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • World
  • Free
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• I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Law
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• And finally, Africa’s progress will depend on upholding the human rights of all people - for if each of us is to be treated with dignity, each of us must be sure to also extend that same dignity to others.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
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• Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Progress
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• Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Progress

• When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Spiritual

• It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.

  

  Mary McAleese
  • Life
  • Women
  • Peace

• I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.

  

  Christian Slater
  • World
  • Today
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• How is our society going to progress if 50 percent of the population is not allowed to contribute?

  

  Lubna Olayan
  • Society
  • Progress

• partition of Ireland, ... the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.

  

  James Connolly
  • Democracy
  • Progress
  • Unity

• Pyongyang watchers consider the regime to be so hungry for economic growth, progress and other goodies as to have no pride, no mission, and no commitment to victory, real victory. It's all eros and no thymos. On this error rests our administration's hope for denuclearization.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Real
  • Hope
  • Growth

• God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.

  

  Mother Angelica
  • Universe
  • Interest
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• What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Family
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  • Remember

• What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.

  

  Wilma Rudolph
  • World
  • Real
  • Home

• To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Progress
  • Order
  • Answers