Richard Feynman Quotes

As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!

Richard Feynman

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• Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Anger

• I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Fool
  • Down
  • Feet

• We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Afraid
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• I have all these rules for avoiding depression. One is going outside in the morning. I don't keep breakfast in the house, so that I have to go out first thing when I first wake up. And then I come back and shower.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Up
  • House
  • Morning

• Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • She
  • Father
  • Woman

• As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Years
  • U.S.
  • Bitterness

• Genome-based treatment, based on wider and cheaper availability of genome data, will provide new ways to customize the therapeutic protocol and enhance our control over diseases and medical treatment.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Control
  • Medical
  • Data

• The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions.

  

  Elie Wiesel

• Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Habits

• The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

  

  Albert Bandura
  • motivation
  • Performance
  • Effects

• I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours.

  

  Albert Shanker
  • Live
  • Way
  • Die

• The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Demon
  • Disability
  • Ems

• Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Important
  • Culture

• To give something for nothing is to weaken the giver.

  

  John Jacob Astor
  • Giver

• I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Destroy
  • Qualities
  • Paintings

• My job never actually leaves me. I watch people who come home from work at six and they're done, and that seems crazy. Then again, they have to get up at seven and go to work, to a job that maybe they don't really care about, and I get to do something that I care about.

  

  Kate Beaton
  • People
  • Job
  • Care

• Peterkin’s face was undergoing the most remarkable series of changes of expression, which, as I concluded, merged into a smile of beaming delight, as he said,—“Ralph, you’re a trump!

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Changes
  • Face
  • Series

• The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning.

  

  Eugene Wigner
  • Learning
  • Language
  • Miracle

• As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Physics
  • Remarkable