“I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.”
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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“At the working man’s house hunger looks in but dares not enter.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
— Albert Einstein (verified)“Do not do that which you would not have known.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
— Thomas Edison (unverified)