“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
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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“Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Disputed“It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.”
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