Richard P. Feynman Quotes

We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries - and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?

Richard P. Feynman

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 11, 1918 - February 15, 1988

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You leave home, and then when you come back, you have a kind of perspective that you didn't have before that in some way problematizes your relationship with your family. You just start to be able to have a sort of double vision about them and who they are and how you grew up that can be really painful.

Jennine Capó Crucet

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In high school and college, I'd set a bunch of goals for myself. I wanted to be the lead effects supervisor on one of these really big, innovative visual effects productions, something on the scale of a 'Star Wars' movie. And I wanted to work on a project that wins the Academy Award for best visual effects.

John Knoll

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All wealth is the product of labor.

John Locke

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What's really going on is, on your iPhone, you have 200 apps, and they're all collecting a little data on you. Twitter knows a certain thing, Foursquare knows something else, my Fitbit app knows something else, my Waze app knows something else.

Robert Scoble

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Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

Maurice Strong

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In many museums, you see one of this and one of that. You gain an understanding of what Abstract Expressionism or Minimalism is, but you aren't given the chance to appreciate the mind of an artist.

Robert J. Fisher

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I'm probably not as good in the topics that I'm less passionate about than the ones I spend all my time on.

Ann Makosinski

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I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis.

Amy Purdy

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This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.

Steven Squyres

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There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

Tony Wilson

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I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.

Michael Palin

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I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.

Lucy Dacus

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