Richard Feynman Quotes

We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, "You don't know what you are talking about!" The second one says, "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?"

Richard Feynman

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• I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • Years
  • Old
  • Gymnastics

• Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Learning

• What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

  

  Larry Bird
  • World
  • Know
  • Better

• There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• The vamp in McMann’s stared at me. I guess he didn’t like the Goth look. Most of them don’t; somehow they think I’m making fun of them. Which I totally am.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Fun
  • Vamp

• Today’s hard news stories were yesterday’s dystopian SF. Rereading

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Today
  • Stories
  • Today`s

• I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • People
  • Ambition
  • Talking

• My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Brain

• In the beginning it wasn't bodybuilding competition that motivated me, it was just getting muscles and getting big. And certainly it has evolved for me since then. I think I'm still evolving.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Thinking
  • Beginning
  • Competition

• It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

  

  Mac Barnett
  • Children
  • Literature

• At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Reality
  • Mean
  • Understanding

• Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • Die
  • Alone

• Well, he robbed his way from Utah to Oklahoma And the law just could not seem to track him down And it served his legend well For the folks, they'd love to tell 'Bout when Billy the Kid came to town.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Law
  • Legend
  • Oklahoma

• The holidays are only holy if we make them so.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Make
  • Holy
  • Holidays

• They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • She
  • Remember

• We are all a little weird. And we like to think that there is always someone weirder. I mean, I am sure some of you are looking at me and thinking, “Well, at least I am not as weird as you,” and I am thinking, “Well, at least I am not as weird as the people in the loony bin,” and the people in the loony bin are thinking, “Well, at least I am an orange”.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• H5N1 is primarily an animal disease. However, given its expanding geographical scope and that H5N1 is endemic in some countries, our assessment is that the risk of pandemic is great. Timing is unpredictable and the severity is uncertain.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Great
  • Risk
  • Animal

• It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Think
  • Laws
  • Obey

• We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, "You don't know what you are talking about!" The second one says, "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?"

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Mean
  • Talking
  • Philosopher