Richard Feynman Quotes
It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.
Quotes to Explore
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
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I realized I could make a difference. I could be their voice; I could fight for them... There's no better place to fight for working families than the governor's chair.
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So we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughterServing empires of style and carbonated sugar waterAnd the old farm road's a four-lane that leads to the mallAnd our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.
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Both of my grandfathers were in the service. It's one of those things that you can't be thankful enough for.
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
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We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
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I think in terms of content and subjects and whatever kind of production it dictates. Can I conceive of an idea that would really connect with my personal rhythms and cost a lot of money? I don't gravitate in that direction, but it is possible.
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I've rung my bells so many times, especially back in the day when chair shots to the head were legal. My goodness, I took so many of those.
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I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.
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I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.
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I only make movies I want to go see.
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I'm just another guy who likes his job and doesn't like his commute.
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Feed the troops on victory.
John Monash -
As athletes, we love to say, 'Just one more; I'm going to figure it out on this next one.' It's tough to pull back the reins and do what is smart physically, listening to your body and always ending a workout or session feeling like I could have done more.
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For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
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It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
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It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.
