The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of love, humility, and the interconnectedness of humanity.
Richard P. Feynman highlights fundamental principles that guide human action, suggesting that love and the acknowledgment of our shared humanity are crucial for personal value and collective progress. Humility is also essential, as it fosters a spirit of respect and cooperation among individuals.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about community service to emphasize the importance of love and humility in helping others.
The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?
We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love?
Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.
Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.
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