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Again we go West
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All things are exchanged for fire, and fire for all things; as wares are exchanged for gold, and gold for wares.
To imagine a set of utterly strange and impossible contingencies, and require youths to give intelligent answers to the questions that arise therefrom, is reckoned the fittest conceivable way of preparing them for the actual conduct of their affairs in life.
That there are few men who are able to cut well in beheadings is further proof that men’s courage has waned.
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
In this world
We walk on the roof of hell
Gazing at flowers.
I received a telephone call one day at the graduate college at Princeton from Professor Wheeler, in which he said, "Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass" "Why?" "Because, they are all the same electron!
A north wind am I unto ripe figs.
Because death approaches, reality approaches. They can’t live with these deluded, nonsensical views about human life
A great artist is never poor
Only describe, don't explain.
There are no worlds ready-made for sale or to let . Each man must build his own.
Archimedes, in order that he might draw the terrestrial globe out of its place, and transport it elsewhere, demanded only that one point should be fixed and immoveable; in the same way I shall have the right to conceive high hopes if I am happy enough to discover one thing only which is certain and indubitable.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Nothing is to be taught, unless against us.
The atomic bomb is a paper tiger
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions