Sunday, 11 May 2014

May 11: Richard Feynman

Physicist Richard Feynman was born on this date in 1918. 10 Richard Feynman quotes:

  1. Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
  2. Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
  3. Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
  4. 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.
  5. The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
  6. Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organisation of the entire tapestry.
  7. I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
  8. We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be. She's always got better imagination than we have.
  9. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
  10. It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

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