“I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.”
Richard Feynman
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 prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“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 Primary source“I think that to keep trying new solutions is the way to do everything.”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
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“At the working man’s house hunger looks in but dares not enter.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“My God what would a man do with a woman like that except worship her?”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.”
— Thucydides Primary source“Do not do that which you would not have known.”
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