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I wonder why,
I wonder why,
I wonder.

I wonder why,
I wonder why,
I wonder.
- Feynman's poem on the topic "Sleep", for his literature assignment. Apparently he fell asleep writing it.

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Some quotes by Richard P. Feynman that I hope might amuse you in a way or another:

By Feynman:

"Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who are not so tall have to choose!"

"I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem."

"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."

""There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers"."

Anecdotes:

"I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. [...] There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts."

"In particular, she had a wonderful sense of humor, and I learned from her that the highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion."
- Commenting on his mother's influence.-

"One time I was in the men's room of the bar and there was a guy at the urinal. He was kind of drunk, and said to me in a mean-sounding voice, "I don't like your face. I think I'll push it in."
I was scared green. I replied in an equally mean voice, "Get out of my way, or I'll pee right through ya!"

On Feynman:

"If that's the world's smartest man, God help us."
- His mother, Lucille Feynman, after Omni magazine named him the world's smartest man.

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More at:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

posted by sg15 @ 8:12 AM