Richard Feynman Quotes

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

Richard Feynman

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• How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Stand

• My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • House
  • Sea
  • Grandfather

• I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Knowledge
  • Change
  • Simple

• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Women
  • She
  • Mad

• I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Family
  • Born

• The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Society
  • Imagination
  • Human

• Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Important

• After the first million, money isn't important.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Important
  • Money
  • First

• I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • English
  • Literature
  • Stories

• Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Proud
  • Tolerance

• We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • May
  • Free

• The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Survival

• Non vi vieto per questo (ch'avrei torto)Che vi lasciate amar; che senza amanteSareste come inculta vite in orto,Che non ha palo ove s'appoggi o piante.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• This is the fundamental problem with the ruling class in Washington, D.C. - the party bosses, the K Street crowd, the lobbyists who control all these politicians. They will do anything to maintain their power. They will do anything. They will say anything.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Power
  • Control
  • Party

• I had discipline in other areas but certainly not in athletics.

  

  Lucas Till
  • Discipline

• With Patreon, it feels like I have an audience now who really appreciates everything that I want to do and who are quite flexible and curious about it.

  

  Judith Holofernes Wir sind Helden
  • Audience
  • Curious
  • Appreciates

• They should just open lots of YouTube schools... as well as, like, a games school, where you can play all types of games. Like, if you want to play racing games, you go there and become a pro at that. Same for football or a shoot 'em up.

  

  KSI
  • Up
  • School
  • Football

• Happiness comes from holiness. You can't truly be happy unless you're hungry for Jesus Christ.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Happy
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Feel
  • Matter

• Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Understanding
  • Religion
  • Atheism