“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.”
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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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
— 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.”
— Richard Feynman (verified)“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 (verified)“The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.”
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“Just as animals flourish in niches, people who specialize in the business world—and get very good because they specialize—frequently find good economics that they wouldn’t get any other way.”
— Charlie Munger (verified)“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“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 (verified)“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
— Helen Keller (verified)