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Richard P. Feynman brings his characteristic curiosity to the notion of want, turning each quote into a small experiment in thought.

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You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life…

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You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life…

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I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

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We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

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Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.

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No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.

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What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them?

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If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom…

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Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by…

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People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us…

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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I…

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When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a…

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Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with…

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Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That…

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We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men…

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In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple… Somebody nominated me for president…

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Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.…

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For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which…

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Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

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Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

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It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

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“There was a Princess Somebody of Denmark sitting at a table with a number of people around her, and I saw an empty chair…

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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.

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“There's a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”

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The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.

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You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

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One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to…

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