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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.

— Richard Feynman Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)

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I don't know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988)

Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.

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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough!

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

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The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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