Richard Feynman Quotes

Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. When you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away...The next scheme, the new discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way.

Richard Feynman

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Job

• Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Nature
  • Simple
  • Rich

• I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Think
  • Rock
  • King

• The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Mother

• TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Why
  • True
  • Mad

• I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered. Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race. Having children changed my life and segregated me from just about everybody and everything that was going on. Outside of my family, nothing held any real interest for me and I was seeing everything through different glasses.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Life
  • Different
  • Children

• 'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'

  

  Edward Abbey

• Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Men
  • Long

• In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • World
  • English

• In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Important
  • Character
  • Opinion

• Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Free
  • Focus
  • Fire

• Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Work
  • Teacher

• In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don't - or can't - travel in an entire career.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Career
  • Travel
  • Journey

• Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth.

  

  Joe Craft
  • Job
  • Growing
  • Growth

• Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Life

• 'Run' is exciting, about family secrets, the mystery surrounding them and the outdoor sport of parkour. The story itself is full of intrigue and action, but the parkour takes the story to another level. It was an absolutely incredible experience, working with experts from all over the country.

  

  Kelsey Chow
  • Country
  • Family
  • Experience

• I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I gave up.

  

  Jacques Dubochet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Career

• When I was told they wanted the show to be about doctors, I was a bit reluctant to sign on, you know? I thought, why have a show about doctors when we could have a show about the real heroes, you know, like me?

  

  Zach Braff
  • Real
  • Why
  • Hero

• Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Live
  • School
  • Progress

• I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

  

  Dennis Lehane
  • Believe
  • Words
  • Lifting

• I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • World
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. When you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away...The next scheme, the new discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Thinking
  • Answers
  • Discovery