Richard Feynman Quotes

The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

Richard Feynman

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• Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Why
  • Food
  • Red

• I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Happens
  • Saying

• I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Experience
  • Picture
  • Advertising

• I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Professional
  • My Life

• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• No man fails who does his best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Fails

• It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Bad

• I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Heard

• I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Dying

• The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Money
  • You
  • Imagination

• As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Children
  • American

• With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Past
  • Culture
  • Space

• The world is all about mind and matter; I don't mind and you don't matter.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • World
  • Mind

• I am waiting for something to go wrong I am waiting for familiar resolve

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Waiting

• Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

  

  Peter Davison
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Poetry

• The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Work

• Into the woods--you have to grope, But that's the way you learn to cope. Into the woods to find there's hope Of getting through the journey.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Way
  • Journey
  • Woods

• I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action.

  

  Randy West
  • Action
  • Enjoy
  • Fast

• If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • People
  • Trying
  • Thoughts

• All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Believe
  • Judge
  • Conversation

• The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Action
  • Spirit
  • Pride