“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”
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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“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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“If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn’t you make the most of it?”
— Ayn Rand (unverified)“If you have time don’t wait for time.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“You know I don’t love any one but you. You shouldn’t mind because some one else loved me.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (unverified)