Richard Feynman Quotes

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.

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• Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Done
  • Outrageous

• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Death
  • Try
  • Escape

• I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Play
  • Learning
  • Songs

• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Books

• I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Eating

• You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Cats

• What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Work
  • Right

• By being friends with all, we are not alone.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Friends
  • Alone
  • Being

• Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Book
  • Like
  • Young

• When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves.

  

  Vernon Howard

• 225. What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Né spegner può, per starne l'acqua, il fuoco,Né può stato mutar, per mutar loco.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

  

  Jamelia
  • Up
  • Work

• I almost had to exhaust myself at modeling before I could say, 'O.K., I'm ready for school.'

  

  Christy Turlington
  • School

• My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • War
  • Political
  • Mom

• The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

  

  Marya Mannes
  • People
  • Control
  • Intelligent

• My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Dad

• Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

  

  Bharati Mukherjee
  • World
  • Culture
  • City

• Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.

  

  David Hoffman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Good
  • Science
  • Man

• I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight.

  

  James Murphy
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Fighting

• To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Science