Richard Feynman Quotes
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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I do not like violence.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians.
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I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.
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In his thoughtful essay about Taniyama, Shimura made this striking comment: Though he was by no means a sloppy type, he was gifted with the special capability of making many mistakes, mostly in the right direction. I envied him for this, and tried in vain to imitate him, but found it quite difficult to make good mistakes.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
