Richard Feynman Quotes

You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, an integrity that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.

Richard Feynman

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• Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Job
  • Know

• It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • World
  • Live
  • Political

• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • You
  • Alone
  • Write

• It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Sick
  • Profound

• I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• A little man often cast a long shadow.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Long
  • Man
  • Shadow

• Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

  

  Beck
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Nature

• Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Science

• The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Ability
  • Down

• I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

  

  Pat Morita
  • Remember
  • You
  • Write

• I'm never going to do something that I don't want to do, because I've been given the opportunity to not have to do that.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Want
  • Opportunity
  • Never

• I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Always

• If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Why
  • Know

• There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Death
  • Peace
  • Behavior

• As you talk, so is your heart.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Heart

• The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • People
  • Men
  • Truth

• It’s no go the Yogi-Man, it’s no go Blavatsky,All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi.

  

  Louis MacNeice
  • Balance

• I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or Martians.

  

  David Bowie
  • Bad

• On Yom Kippur The rabbi intones that today is the day that God will put your name in the Book of Life... or the Book of DEATH. I'm five, and I'm going, 'Uhhh, what the fuck is that? The book of WHAT?!?' Death? Death was not anything that had ever occurred to me. My greatest fear was that my parents were going to leave me in a grocery store.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Life
  • God
  • Book

• I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

  

  Jim Caviezel
  • Responsibility
  • Jesus

• Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!

  

  Iain Banks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Age

• In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened... or depressed would be asked,... When did you stop dancing? ... This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • People
  • Stop
  • Healing

• You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, an integrity that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Responsibility
  • Acting