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Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
United States · 1918–1988
Science and medicine
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.
So I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy solution for me where I don’t have to teach. Never.
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