About Richard Feynman

Nobel Prize winning physicist, teacher and author known for quantum electrodynamics. (1918-1988)

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More from Richard Feynman

• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.'Cargo Cult Science', Caltech commencement address (1974)
• What I cannot create, I do not understand.Written on his Caltech blackboard (1988)
• I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988)
• Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.Letter to J. M. Szabados (1965), in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations (2005)
• I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, BBC interview (1981)
• You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)

More quotes on leadership

• Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.Dalai Lama
• Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each one of us individually.Dalai Lama
• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.Desmond Tutu
• I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.Desmond Tutu
• If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything, wouldn't you, at any time? And you would achieve nothing!Margaret Thatcher
• You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.Margaret Thatcher

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