The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for quantum electrodynamics. Member of the Manhattan Project and author of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
The pleasure of finding things out is the prize.
Fall in love with some activity, and do it.
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
I think nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.
The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to.