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Richard Feynman

Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965

United States · 1918–1988

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Theoretical physicist at Cornell and then the California Institute of Technology. Shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum electrodynamics, and served on the presidential commission investigating the Challenger accident.

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Recorded · On the billboard

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you've not fooled yourself, it's easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.
If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere, what would it say and why? Caltech commencement address, Pasadena, California, Caltech Engineering and Science (Caltech Library archive), 1 June 1974 source ↗
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The questions of the students are often the source of new research.  They often ask profound questions that I’ve thought about at times and then given up on, so to speak, for a while.  It wouldn’t do me any harm to think about them again and see if I can go any further now.  The students may not be able to see the thing I want to answer, or the subtleties I want to think about, but they remind me of a problem by asking questions in the neighborhood of that problem.  It’s not so easy to remind yourself of these things.
Recorded Excerpt from “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”, Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 1985 source ↗

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