Richard Feynman Quotes

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

Richard Feynman

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• Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • End
  • Consciousness
  • Torture

• What each of us longs for the most is to be both fully known and fully loved. Miraculously, God feels the same way about us. God, too, wants to be fully known and fully loved. God wants this so much that He has promised to knock down every obstacle in the way, enduring even His own death, to be with us, to consummate this love.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • God
  • Want
  • Death

• The legacy of this place is heroism and goodness. That is what we celebrate through this museum.

  

  Frank Keating
  • Place
  • Legacy
  • Heroism

• It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Loyalty
  • Betrayal

• We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Europe
  • Shabby place

• The success of a businessperson can be measured by the problems she has successfully solved.

  

  Betsy Z. Cohen
  • Success
  • Problems
  • Businessperson

• Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Education
  • Ignorance
  • Racism

• Maybe she'd ended up going to Ireland because whilst visiting her father she'd bumped into an old love from her youth, perhaps even her ex? Such spontaneous acts really only worked with men left over from earlier in your life.

  

  Eva Heller
  • Life
  • Ireland
  • Visiting

• I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Happens
  • Fan
  • Bully

• I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Children
  • Films
  • I Make

• Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Way
  • Learn

• The rabble also vent their rage in words.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Words
  • Rage
  • Rabble

• Some bridges, once crossed, will change you forever.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Change
  • Bridges
  • Crossed

• In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Food
  • Mood
  • Meat

• Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working!

  

  Guy Fieri
  • Life
  • Great
  • Kids

• They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Potatoes
  • Underground
  • Derive

• ...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I am growing old'.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Potatoes
  • Beef
  • Growing Old

• Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Potatoes