The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
RF
Richard Feynman'Cargo Cult Science', Caltech commencement address (1974)
About Richard Feynman
Nobel Prize winning physicist, teacher and author known for quantum electrodynamics. (1918-1988)
More from Richard Feynman
- 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)
- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.Rogers Commission Report on the Challenger disaster, Appendix F (1986)
- You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
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- Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows If you're looking down.Charlie Chaplin
- I think that if I am smart in business, it's just that I'm smart about who I am. I know what I can, can't, will and won't do.Dolly Parton
- Find out who you are and do it on purpose.Dolly Parton
- Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.Lucille Ball
- When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes.Lucille Ball
- I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.Frida Kahlo
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