Dena Bain Taylor

Happy birthday to Richard Feynman (1918-1988), American author and physicist who was widely regarded as the most brilliant, influential, and iconoclastic figure in his field in the post-World War II era.

"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."

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."

"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing."

"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."

"I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe."

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