“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”
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.
More about “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” →
“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.”
— Richard Feynman (verified)More quotes by Richard Feynman →
“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (unverified)“He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly, need not be rich.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“It’s common for men to give pretended reasons instead of one real one.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)