What Do You Care What Other People Think? (Primary source)
Feynman’s poignant final memoir interweaving tender remembrances of his first wife Arlene’s death from tuberculosis with his determined investigation of the Challenger disaster, revealing both personal vulnerability and professional integrity.
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“You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You’ll only know about humans in different places, and what they call the bird. So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing—that’s what counts. (I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.)”
Richard Feynman
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
— Richard Feynman“Knowledge is of no real value if all you can tell me is what happened yesterday. It is necessary to tell what will happen tomorrow.”
— Richard Feynman“The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.”
— Richard Feynman“I think that to keep trying new solutions is the way to do everything.”
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“I’m not unfaithful, darling. I’ve plenty of faults but I’m very faithful. You’ll be sick of me I’ll be so faithful.”
— Ernest Hemingway“Tim was so learned, that he could name a horse in nine languages. So ignorant, that he bought a cow to ride on.”
— Benjamin Franklin“I’m afraid that’s the way it [reality] is. If there are twenty factors and they interact some, you’ll have to learn to handle it—because that’s the way the world is. But you won’t find it that hard if you go at it Darwin-like, step by step with curious persistence. You’ll be amazed at how good you can get.”
— Charlie Munger“However good you were at math, that’s how good you’d be at other subjects.”
— Bill Gates