We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

—Richard Feynman

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About Richard Feynman

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Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles".

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No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

—Richard Feynman

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

—Richard Feynman

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

—Richard Feynman

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

—Richard Feynman

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It doesn't matter what happens as long as the right person gets the blame.

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Sometimes life offers you something unexpected, and when it does, you have a responsibility to explore it.

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To speak out against an unjust war was treasonous; to speak against the treatment of blacks made you a communist. But if you feel in your heart that you have a responsibility to advance justice and human rights, then do it.

—Harry Belafonte

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

—Henry David Thoreau

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