Richard Feynman Quotes

In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

Richard Feynman

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• All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Think
  • You
  • Cheers

• Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Money
  • High
  • Small

• I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Friend

• For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Movie
  • You

• Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Moral

• I record all night and sleep all day.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Night
  • Day
  • Sleep

• Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Trust
  • Yourself

• I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Life
  • Good
  • History

• One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Live

• Well when I woke up this morning,There was a note upon my door, Said don't make me no coffee Babe,'Cause I won't be back no more, And that's all she wrote, Dear John, I've sent your saddle home.

  

  Hank Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • She

• Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Nature
  • Clear Messages

• Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.

  

  Owen Chamberlain
  • Environment
  • Generation
  • Scientists

• For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Atmosphere

• So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

  

  Andy Grove
  • World
  • Quiet
  • Turbulent

• Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• Give me the muny the cars, the case loads The mun-mun muny the Yen & the Pesos

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Giving
  • Car
  • Cases

• If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Black
  • Moving
  • Cases

• In some cases they do a good job, and in some cases they don't do a very good job. The commissioner of the WAC just has too much say in what's going on.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Cases
  • Good Job
  • Commissioner

• Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.

  

  George E. P. Box
  • Believe
  • Mathematics
  • Physics

• In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Physics
  • Cases
  • Affair