Richard Feynman Quotes

"Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get "down the drain," into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that."

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.
Explore the world.
Nearly everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.
Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.

Don’t you think that the purpose of language is communication?

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers