Feynman Lectures On Physics Quotes

#1. Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.

Ellen Meloy

#2. I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

Jeff Lindsay

#3. That's literally been the story of my career. I'm always the second choice. And you know what? I'm more than happy to be that person.

Bianca Kajlich

#4. Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

Charlotte M. Mason

#5. CURIOSITY DEMANDS THAT WE ASK QUESTIONS,
THAT WE TRY TO PUT THINGS TOGETHER AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND THIS MULTITUDE OF ASPECTS
AS PERHAPS RESULTING FROM THE ACTION OF A RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER OF ELEMENTAL
THINGS AND FORCES ACTING IN AN INFINITE VARIETY OF COMBINATIONS

Richard Feynman

#6. True culture is in the mind, the mind," he said, and tapped his head, "the mind." "It's in the heart," she said, "and in how you do things and how you do things is because of who you are." "Nobody in the damn bus cares who you are." "I care who I am," she said icily.

Flannery O'Connor

#7. He lived out there, eight miles from any neighbor, in a masculine solitude in what might be called the half-acre gunroom of a baronial splendor.

William Faulkner

#8. THE QUESTION IS, OF COURSE, IS IT GOING TO BE POSSIBLE TO AMALGAMATE EVERYTHING,
AND MERELY DISCOVER THAT THIS WORLD REPRESENTS DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF ONE THING?

Richard Feynman

#9. The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is varying degrees of 'umph'

Bear Grylls

#10. In the marathon obstacle course of a career, it's just good to have all the stats on paper for why you're not only a team player but also why it makes sense to support you in the projects you want to do - because you've made so much damned money for the studio.

Robert Downey Jr.

#11. The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the
biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.

Allen Ginsberg

#12. Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.

Aleister Crowley

#13. Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all.

Jerry Adler

#14. Entertaining doesn't need to be a difficult or daunting process. Throwing an unforgettable party doesn't require a ton of time or money; it just requires a little thought, creativity, and heart.

Maury Ankrum

#15. I know I was drugged but that is still no excuse. Why do they want to do things like that?

Beatrice Sparks