How can we tell whether the rules which we guess at are really right if we cannot analyze the game very well? There are, roughly speaking, three ways.First, there may be situations where nature has ar...
He detested hierarchy and enjoyed the friendship of people in all walks of life. He was, like Shakespeare, an actor with a talent for comedy.
But if you’ve ever worked with computers, you understand the disease—the delight in being able to see how much you can do.
You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
Else can you do with the law of gravitation? If we look at the moons of Jupiter we can understand everything about the way they move around that planet. Incidentally, there was once a certain difficul...
What a contrast—the person sitting at the table gets this nice cake on a doilied plate, while the pantry man back there with the stubby thumbs is saying, ‘Damn deez doilies!’ So that was the differenc...
Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely w...
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...
This conference was worse than a Rorschach test: There’s a meaningless inkblot, and the others ask you what you think you see, but when you tell them, they start arguing with you!
There were a lot of fools at that conference—pompous fools—and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out.
There was a Princess Somebody of Denmark sitting at a table with a number of people around her, and I saw an empty chair at their table and sat down.She turned to me and said, Oh! You're one of the No...
The exception proves that the rule is wrong. That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong.
That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your posit...
Only with quantitative observations can one arrive at quantitative relationships, which are the heart of physics.
Once in Hawaii I was taken to see a Buddhist temple. In the temple a man said, I am going to tell you something that you will never forget. And then he said, To every man is given the key to the gates...
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
I’ve found out since that such people don’t know what they’re doing, and get insulted when you make some suggestion or criticism.
I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.