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.

Richard Feynman

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• Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Thoughts
  • Thought
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• I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Work
  • Things
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• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Person
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  • Mouth

• The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • People
  • Work
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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.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Fight
  • Make A Difference

• 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.

  

  Charles Babbage
  • Popular

• We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Greed

• 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.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Jeff Hardy

• 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.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Up
  • 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.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Done
  • Business
  • Marriage

• I only make movies I want to go see.

  

  Jerry Bruckheimer

• I've done a few American accents. I've maybe passed a test. But I don't know if it makes things easier or not.

  

  Kelly Macdonald
  • Done
  • American

• The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • People
  • Important
  • Age

• I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something like Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends,' and I'm like, 'Wow, I really feel what he's talking about.' That's how I want people to feel about my music.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • People
  • Music
  • Friends

• I founded io9 back in 2008, and I watched it journey from the farthest reaches of space to its current home under this atmosphere bubble on Ceres.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Home
  • Space
  • Journey

• I might be more satisfied seeing my friends really come up than myself. I'm really happy for my success, but I can't really see it, because I'm myself working. You can see it; everyone around me can see it.

  

  ASAP Ferg
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Happy

• But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • People
  • Book

• That short-sleeping that we're now suffering is a consequence of our lifestyle. It's not a consequence of evolutionary habituation.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Suffering

• The way I've approached my career, I've always tried to be pretty good at everything. I think if you ask players about my game, they would say I'm pretty good at everything, but I don't think they'd say I'm the best at certain things. Maybe that's my strength, not having a serious weakness or many weaknesses. I just try and be solid.

  

  Daniel Nestor
  • Good
  • Game
  • Pretty

• I try to stay in shape, I work out in the gym, take my vitamins every day, and I guess maybe I have some good genes, but lately Ive been feeling it. You know, after all these years it does catch up with you. But just for now.

  

  Regis Philbin
  • Feeling
  • Try
  • Guess

• 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.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Smart
  • Differences
  • Experiments