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Book: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
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  1. Richard P. Feynman _ The Pleasure of Finding Things

    I won't have anything to do with the Nobel Prize . . . it's a pain in the . . . {LAUGHS}.
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  2. Richard P. Feynman _ The Pleasure of Finding Things

    He detested hierarchy and enjoyed the friendship of people in all walks of life. He was, like Shakespeare, an actor with a talent for comedy.
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  3. Richard P. Feynman _ The Pleasure of Finding Things

    but if you believe in the truth of the healing, then you are responsible to investigate
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  4. Richard P. Feynman _ The Pleasure of Finding Things

    I believe, therefore, that although it is not the case today, that there may some day come a time, I should hope, when it will fully appreciated that the power of governments should be limited; that governments ought not to be empowered to decide the validity of scientific theories, that this is a ridiculous thing for them to try to do; that they are not to decide the description of history or of economic theory or of philosophy.
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  5. Richard P. Feynman _ The Pleasure of Finding Things

    Wir müssen unbedingt Raum für Zweifel lassen, sonst gibt es keinen Fortschritt, kein Dazulernen. Man kann nichts Neues herausfinden, wenn man nicht vorher eine Frage stellt. Und um zu fragen, bedarf es des Zweifelns.
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  6. Richard P. Feynman _ The Pleasure of Finding Things

    You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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  7. Richard P. Feynman _ The Pleasure of Finding Things

    I believe, therefore, that although it is not the case today, that there may some day come a time, I should hope, when it will be fully appreciated that the power of government should be limited; that governments ought not to be empowered to decide the validity of scientific theories, that that is a ridiculous thing for them to try to do; that they are not to decide the various descriptions of history or of economic theory or of philosophy. Only in this way can the real possibilities of the future human race be ultimately developed.
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  8. Richard P. Feynman _ The Pleasure of Finding Things

    I don't believe in honors, it bothers me, honors bother, honors is epaulettes, honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way. I can't stand it, it hurts me.
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  9. Richard P. Feynman _ The Pleasure of Finding Things

    لا ينبغي أن نخشى من الشكّ بل يجب أن نرحّب به ونناقشه
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  10. Richard P. Feynman _ The Pleasure of Finding Things

    I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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  11. Richard P. Feynman _ The Pleasure of Finding Things

    I'm not responsible for what other people think I am able to do; I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.
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  12. Richard P. Feynman _ The Pleasure of Finding Things

    alone, and start to think. 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 one 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 the dry land . . . here it is standing . . . atoms with consciousness . . . matter with curiosity. Stands at the sea . . . wonders at wondering . . . I . . . a universe
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