Richard Feynman Quotes

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

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• But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Now
  • Agreement
  • Australia

• Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Always
  • Same
  • News

• The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Mother
  • Myself
  • See

• If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • Generation
  • Listen

• We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Fighting
  • Dead
  • Heal

• Republicans have never been good at public relations.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Good
  • Never
  • Been

• I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Black
  • Said

• I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Care
  • Win
  • Gold

• Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • More
  • Now
  • Would

• The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Never

• I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Value
  • Excitement

• I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Television

• I never planned on being an actress or Wonder Woman, but everything just happened, and I am grateful and happy and in love with what I do.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Wonder

• I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Feel
  • Need
  • Jewish

• So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Four
  • Daughters
  • Five

• It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Washington
  • Teeth
  • Edge

• My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Great
  • Sex

• I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Job
  • Think
  • Woman

• My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.

  

  James Frey
  • True
  • Wife
  • Struggle

• Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

  

  Derek Bailey
  • People
  • Work
  • Free

• One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Lost
  • Door

• I've had pretty much the same crew for all the films that I've made, and I've managed to have really nice, calm, funny people. That is a big part of it, a family feeling of warmth and finding something interesting and making a platform for them to perform. It's a very difficult job, acting, in that it's totally counterintuitive to how we are brought up.

  

  Ben Wheatley
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.

  

  Marco Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Film
  • Fans
  • Horror

• I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

  

  Richard Feynman
  • People
  • Way
  • Understanding