Quote by Richard Feynman Download Open image ““But at MIT there was a rule: You have to take some humanities courses to get more “culture.”” — Richard Feynman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example. — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
“Language and literature allows us to define our own truths using our perceptions of culture and society.” — T. MacLaughlin Copy Share Image
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share
Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination. — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
“From a long view of the history of mankind-seen from, say, ten thousand years from now-there can be little doubt that the most significant… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“All of our ideas in physics require a certain amount of common sense in their application; they are not purely mathematical or abstract ideas.” — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“If a Martian (who, we'll imagine, never dies except by accident) came to Earth and saw this peculiar race of creatures - these humans who live about seventy or eighty years, knowing that death is going to come - it would look to him like a terrible problem of psychology to live under those circumstances, knowing that life is only… — Richard Feynman Copy Share
“The guy says, “Buddy, the housing situation in Ithaca is tough. In fact, it’s so tough that, believe it or not, a professor had… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is ... If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.” — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“Although my mother didn't know anything about science, she had a great influence on me as well. In particular, she had a wonderful sense… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an atom. That's the logic of it. The poetry of it is that the equation tells me how shiny gold is, how come rocks are hard, what makes grass green, and why you can't see the wind. And a… — Richard Feynman Copy Share
“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“But wait,” he said. “Let’s suppose it returns by advanced waves—reactions backward in time—so it comes back at the right time. We saw the… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image