Author: Richard P. Feynman
There are two types of genius. Ordinary geniuses do great things, but they leave you room to believe that you could do the same if only you worked hard enough. Then there are magicians, and you can have no idea how they do it. Feynman was a magician — Hans Bethe, theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate
Why should we go this way? Simple: Look at the telephone lines. Where there's more wires, it's going toward the central station.
People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me!
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The story about the chemist job and another friend later talking about that company as a great company and feynman breaking the truth 😂
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The anecdote on analyzing dreams
All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't — which is just another way of saying that you can't.
The story about the painter who said he could get yellow by mixing red and white and Feynman believed him but only to be proven otherwise — I’ve very often made mistakes in my physics by thinking the theory isn’t as good as it really is, thinking that there are lots of complications that are going to spoil it — an attitude that anything can happen, in spite of what you’re pretty sure should happen.
The ant geometric lines story
I had obviously done something to myself psychologically: Reality was so important - I had to understand what really happened to Arlene, physiologically - that I didn’t cry until a number of months later, when I was in Oak Ridge. I was walking past a department store with dresses in the window, and thought Arlene would like one of them. That was too much for me.
The story about Niels Bohr talking to Feynman first and then to the big shots cause Feynman would say the mistakes right to his face unlike others.
It was a brilliant jdea.: You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
The story of him rejecting Chicago and staying at Caltech
It was the first time, and the only time in my career that I knew a law of nature that nobody else knew.
I’ll never make that mistake again, reading the expert’s opinions. Of course, you only live one life and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do and that’s the end of you.