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

• If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • People
  • Lady
  • Potatoes

• Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes; And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis: What wondrous new machines have late been spinning.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Potatoes
  • Spinning
  • Galvanism

• "Next," said Mrs Wilfer with a wave of her gloves, expressive of abdication under protest from the culinary throne, "I would recommend examination of the bacon in the saucepan on the fire, and also of the potatoes by the application of a fork. Preparation of the greens will further become necessary if you persist in this unseemly demeanour."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Protest
  • Throne
  • Potatoes

• Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Prayer
  • Place
  • Milk

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

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Potatoes