Horizon: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (Primary source)
A candid 1981 BBC interview where Richard Feynman reflects on curiosity, discovery, honors, scientific thinking, and the deep personal joy he finds in understanding how the world works.
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“I don’t see that it makes any point that someone in the Swedish Academy decides that this work is noble enough to receive a prize. I’ve already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.”
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“I think that to keep trying new solutions is the way to do everything.”
— Richard Feynman“We’ve learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature’s phenomena will agree or they’ll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven’t tried to be very careful in this kind of work.”
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— Benjamin Franklin“One of the things that happens in organizations as well as with people is that they settle into ways of looking at the world and become satisfied with things and the world changes and keeps evolving and new potential arises but these people who are settled in don’t see it. That’s what gives start-up companies their greatest advantage.”
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