Richard Feynman Quotes

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.

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• Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Days
  • Oil
  • Tokyo

• I'm just happy to be doing a job that I love.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Love
  • Job
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• Beauty is a fragile gift.

  

  Ovid
  • Beauty
  • Gift
  • Fragile

• My parents are supportive of anything I want to do, as long as it's not bad.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Long
  • Bad
  • Want

• No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Choice
  • Word
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• Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.

  

  Leopold Kronecker
  • Question
  • Decision
  • Definitions

• The only thing I can say is that people requested,when The Exorcist it going to be on the big screen? People want it on the big screen and they want to see the footage. I think it's going to do very well. I think it will please people, and the fact that they added the new sound.

  

  Linda Blair
  • People
  • Sound
  • Exorcist

• Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working. The soul has no age. It doesn't die. Only the body decays. And yet, we must never forget the body, since it is the garden we must cherish and cultivate.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Why
  • Age
  • Soul

• Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Firsts
  • Doctrine
  • Establishment Clause

• Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Children
  • Strong
  • Education

• This can't go on this way indefinitely, ... We need to get this leadership issue behind us.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Way
  • Leadership
  • Indefinitely

• Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

  

  William James
  • May
  • Universe
  • Dog

• Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Materials

• We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Past
  • Fall
  • Empty

• Some of the songs on the radio are really outrageous. I listen to the lyric. If the lyric doesn't make sense, I don't like the song.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Songs
  • Radio
  • Outrageous

• With quantum computers you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, and use that to rule out lots of things about the universe's history. Anything that takes more bit flips couldn't have happened.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Energy
  • Universe
  • Computer

• If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Ridiculous
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