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Richard P Feynman : We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it. # Science and Scientists # Nuclear Age # Love

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Euripides : " Cleverness is not wisdom. " # Science and Scientists # Nuclear Age # Love

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Francois De La Rochefoucauld : " It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness. " # Science and Scientists # Nuclear Age # Love

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Henri F Amiel : " Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. " # Science and Scientists # Nuclear Age # Love

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Thomas Carlyle : " Clever men are good, but they are not the best. " # Science and Scientists # Nuclear Age # Love

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Jack Vance : " Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing? " # Science and Scientists # Nuclear Age # Love

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Israel Zangwill : " A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. " # Science and Scientists # Nuclear Age # Love

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Arnold Bennet : " Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. " # Science and Scientists # Nuclear Age # Love

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Francois De La Rochefoucauld : " The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. " # Science and Scientists # Nuclear Age # Love

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Francois de Fenelon : " The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. " # Science and Scientists # Nuclear Age # Love

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George Bernard Shaw : " Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. " # Science and Scientists # Nuclear Age # Love

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Richard P Feynman: " I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy." # Science and Scientists # Love # Belief

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Richard P Feynman: " There are two kinds of geniuses: the 'ordinary' and the 'magicians'. An ordinary genius is a fellow whom you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There is no mystery as to how his mind works. Once we understand what they've done, we feel certain that we, too, could have done it. It is different with the magicians. Even after we understand what they have done it is completely dark. Richard Feynman is a magician of the highest calibre." # Genius # Love # Kindness

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Richard P Feynman: " Why should we care about Feynman? What was so special about him? Why did he become a public icon, standing with Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking as the Holy Trinity of twentieth-century physics? The public has demonstrated remarkably good taste in choosing its icons. All three of them are genuinely great scientists, with flashes of true genius as well as solid accomplishments to their credit. But to become an icon, it is not enough to be a great scientist. There are many other scientists, not so great as Einstein but greater than Hawking and Feynman, who did not become icons. ... Scientists who become icons must not only be geniuses but also performers, playing to the crowd and enjoying public acclaim. Einstein and Feynman both grumbled about the newspaper and radio reporters who invaded their privacy, but both gave the reporters what the public wanted, sharp and witty remarks that would make good headlines. Hawking in his unique way also enjoys the public adulation that his triumph over physical obstacles has earned for him. I will never forget the joyful morning in Tokyo when Hawking went on a tour of the streets in his wheelchair and the Japanese crowds streamed after him, stretching out their hands to touch his chair. Einstein, Hawking, and Feynman shared an ability to break through the barriers that separated them from ordinary people. The public responded to them because they were regular guys, jokers as well as geniuses. The third quality that is needed for a scientist to become a public icon is wisdom. Besides being a famous joker and a famous genius, Feynman was also a wise human being whose answers to serious questions made sense. To me and to hundreds of other students who came to him for advice, he spoke truth. Like Einstein and Hawking, he had come through times of great suffering, nursing Arline through her illness and watching her die, and emerged stronger. Behind his enormous zest and enjoyment of life was an awareness of tragedy, a knowledge that our time on earth is short and precarious. The public made him into an icon because he was not only a great scientist and a great clown but also a great human being and a guide in time of trouble. Other Feynman books have portrayed him as a scientific wizard and as a storyteller. This collection of letters shows us for the first time the son caring for his father and mother, the father caring for his wife and children, the teacher caring for his students, the writer replying to people throughout the world who wrote to him about their problems and received his full and undivided attention." # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading # Love

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Richard P Feynman: " Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." # Sex

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Richard P Feynman: " Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next" # Physics

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Richard P Feynman: " I returned to civilization shortly after that and went to Cornell to teach, and my first impression was a very strange one. I can't understand it any more, but I felt very strongly then. I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example, and I looked out at the buildings and I began to think, you know, about how much the radius of the Hiroshima bomb damage was and so forth... How far from here was 34th street?... All those buildings, all smashed — and so on. And I would see people building a bridge, or they'd be making a new road, and I thought, they're crazy, they just don't understand, they don't understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless. But, fortunately, it's been useless for almost forty years now, hasn't it? So I've been wrong about it being useless making bridges and I'm glad those other people had the sense to go ahead." # Death and Dying # Love # Age and Aging

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Richard P Feynman: " There are the rushing waves... mountains of molecules, each stupidly minding its own business... trillions apart ...yet forming white surf in unison. Ages on ages... before any eyes could see... year after year... thunderously pounding the shore as now. For whom, for what? ...on a dead planet with no life to entertain. Never at rest... tortured by energy... wasted prodigiously by the sun... poured into space. A mite makes the sea roar. Deep in the sea, all molecules repeat the patterns of another till complex new ones are formed. They make others like themselves... and a new dance starts. Growing in size and complexity... living things, masses of atoms, DNA, protein... dancing a pattern ever more intricate. Out of the cradle onto dry land... here it is standing... atoms with consciousness ...matter with curiosity. Stands at the sea... wonders at wondering... I... a universe of atoms... an atom in the universe." # Travel and Tourism # Love # Death and Dying

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Richard P Feynman: " Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." # Science and Scientists # Fools and Foolishness # Wisdom

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Richard P Feynman: " The first ... has to do with whether a man knows what he is talking about, whether what he says has some basis or not. And my trick that I use is very easy. If you ask him intelligent questions — then he quickly gets stuck. It is like a child asking naive questions. If you ask naive but relevant questions, then almost immediately the person doesn't know the answer, if he is an honest man." # Children # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Questions

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Richard P Feynman: " On the contrary, it's because someone knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance... so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!" # Finance # Money # Weather

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