Richard Feynman Quotes

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

Richard Feynman

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• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Think
  • Law

• I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Think
  • Leader
  • Impact

• What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Should
  • Matter
  • Say

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • God
  • Faith
  • Sister

• When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Music
  • You
  • Timeless

• Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Time
  • Great
  • Father

• That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Why
  • Team
  • Sports

• If you never give up, you'll be successful.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Never
  • Successful
  • Give Up

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Surprised

• Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Either

• Form follows beauty.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Beauty
  • Form
  • Follows

• So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Good
  • Long
  • Friends

• I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Hope
  • Perfect

• I was neitherLiving nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Silence

• The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire fell apart. Lord, Portugal must yet fulfill itself!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sea

• Well we can't salute ya Can't find a flag If that don't suit ya That's a drag School's out for summer School's out forever School's been blown to pieces.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • School
  • Forever
  • Summer

• Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Important
  • Art

• We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Party
  • Church
  • Mad

• I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.

  

  William Baldwin
  • Dirty
  • Responsible
  • Nasty

• It's a situation that you wouldn't put your worst enemy in. Obviously, none of us will ever know what the truth is, but I believe him. And for him to have to go through this, it's something that we can't really comprehend.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Enemy
  • Situation
  • Worst

• The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Situation
  • Chess