“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
Richard Feynman (verified)
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Primary source)
A delightful collection of autobiographical anecdotes revealing Feynman’s insatiable curiosity and playful irreverence, from safecracking at Los Alamos to bongo drumming in Greenwich Village, illustrating how brilliance and joy coexisted in one extraordinary life.
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“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.”
Richard Feynman (verified)
“I think that to keep trying new solutions is the way to do everything.”
— Richard Feynman (verified)“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
— Richard Feynman (verified)“The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.”
— Richard Feynman (verified)“Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something.”
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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 (verified)“The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights. And you’re probably not going to be smart enough to find thousands in a lifetime. And when you get a few, you really load up. It’s just that simple.”
— Charlie Munger (verified)“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
— Marie Curie (unverified)“When you’re good to others, you are best to yourself.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)