All Quotes
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“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. Discourse on the Method (1637), Part I”
“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. Discourse on the Method (1637), Part II”
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Discourse on the Method (1637), Part I”
“I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), Meditation I”
“When someone says "I think, therefore I am," the term "therefore" does not denote a logical conclusion from a syllogism, but a simple intuition of the mind. Letter to Clerselier (1646)”
“The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), Meditation I”
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)”
“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues. Discourse on the Method (1637), Part I”
“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown.”
“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”
“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”
“The real is not what is seen, but what is felt.”
“To be a surrealist means to barter the soul for the unknown.”
“My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery.”
“The function of painting is to make poetry visible.”
“A painted object is not the object itself; it is a representation that makes us think of the object.”
“Words and images have a mysterious relationship that I try to capture.”
“The familiar becomes strange when we look at it with fresh eyes.”
“El nacionalismo es una forma de tribalismo”
“Es perverso instruir en falsedades”
“We scientists are clever”
“Principles You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction. note (c. 1948), quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick , p. 5”
“I had too much stuff. My machines came from too far away. Reflecting on the failure of his presentation at the "Pocono Conference" of 30 March”
“interview with Sylvan S. Schweber, 13 November 1984, published in QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga (1994) by Silvan S. Schweber, p. 436”
“The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things. letter to Robert Bacher (6 April 1950), quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick , p. 278”
“Western civilization, it seems to me, stands by two great heritages. One is the scientific spirit of adventure”
“It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe , this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil”
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“Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem.”
“On the Philosophical Problems in Quantizing Macroscopic Objects”