Richard Feynman Quotes
So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real reason is that the subject is enjoyable, and although we humans cut nature up in different ways, and we have different courses in different departments, such compartmentaliz ation is really artificial, and we should take our intellectual pleasures where we find them.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.
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There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.
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To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
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You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.
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I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.
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I went to college at San Francisco State and supported myself working the graveyard shift at a brewery and did a little theater. It was great. I'd do Shakespeare and stuff like that.
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When you see yourself on a 40-ft. screen. you go, 'Oh My God! I look so weird!'
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So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real reason is that the subject is enjoyable, and although we humans cut nature up in different ways, and we have different courses in different departments, such compartmentaliz ation is really artificial, and we should take our intellectual pleasures where we find them.
