Richard Feynman Quotes

You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

Richard Feynman

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• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Student

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Going
  • Run
  • Away

• Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Family
  • Searching

• I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Angry
  • Two
  • Getting

• Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Death
  • Blue
  • Mysterious

• For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Wall

• Time is the wisest counselor of all.

  

  Pericles
  • Time

• I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.

  

  Chris Toumazou
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Science

• You gotta understand - the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States. Now that has been a very difficult story for America to tell, but that's what actually happened.

  

  James Meredith
  • America

• The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Work
  • Career

• I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Death

• It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

  

  John Archibald Wheeler
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Simple

• I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn't wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Wedding

• I gravitate toward women.

  

  Liam Neeson
  • Women

• I don't want to be jumping from team to team.

  

  Asdrubal Cabrera
  • Team

• Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

  

  James Joyce
  • Excellence
  • Fierce

• The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Rest
  • Christmas

• I think God has me on a path. I think he puts certain people in my life, and angels send messages to me, like, Kanye, I want you to say this, and I want you to say that, and I want you to talk to this girl here, and I don't want you to do this over here.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• There are actually three French companies, one of them in the public sector, from which we are buying the submarines and not two.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Companies
  • French
  • Submarines

• They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Night
  • Expectations
  • Loses

• Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Internet

• Science has an important part to play in our everyday existence, and there is far too much neglect of science; but its intention is to supplement not to supplant the familiar outlook.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Important
  • Science
  • Everyday

• A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Time

• You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Simplicity