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Biography - Richard Phillips Feynman:

American theoretical physicist.
Born: 1918 - Died: 1988
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: United States
United States

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.



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Quotes for: beauty


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Quotes about beauty:


Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.





All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.





All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.





Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.





What beauty is, I know not.





I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.











Quotes for: world


Quotes

Quotes about the world:


The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.





Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.





How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.











Quotes for: emotion


Quotes

Quotes for: emotion


Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.





The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.





There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.





I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.





My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.





The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.











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Richard Phillips Feynman also said...


The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.





The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.'





Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.





Nature has a great simplicity and, therefore, a great beauty.












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