"It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. On the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price."
- Felix Dennis
"Motive makes a fine horse when tamed by understanding and bridled by wisdom."
- Felix Dennis
"But hey! If you want to be rich, sometimes you have to sup with the devil. And nobody cares, least of all ‘analysts’, how long or how short your spoon is."
- Felix Dennis
"Humans are a cooperative, if argumentative, race."
- Felix Dennis
"You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick."
- Richard Feynman
"If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part."
- Richard Feynman
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."
- Richard Feynman
"Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation."
- Richard Feynman
"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
- Richard Feynman
"Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough."
- Richard Feynman
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."
- Richard Feynman
"I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!"
- Richard Feynman
"It's not the lack of intelligence, it's the lack of focus that is stopping you."
- Richard Feynman
"Teach your children early what you learned late."
- Richard Feynman
"Students don't need a perfect teacher. Students need a happy teacher, who's gonna make them excited to come to school and grow a love for learning."
- Richard Feynman
"Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention."
- Richard Feynman
"Did you know that it’s actually possible for you to say, “I don’t know enough about this to have an opinion”"
- Richard Feynman
"If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it."
- Richard Feynman
"When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's pain only for others.
It's the same thing when you are stupid."
- Richard Feynman
"Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty"
- Richard Feynman
"The measure of your intelligence is not your ability to acquire knowledge but how you handle uncertainty and navigate through it and behave when you don't know what to do."