Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.
Interpretation
Winning a Nobel Prize is significant, but achieving it with an average IQ highlights the importance of creativity and unconventional thinking.
This quote by Richard P. Feynman emphasizes that intelligence, as measured by IQ, is not the sole determinant of success. Rather, it suggests that creativity, determination, and the ability to think outside conventional norms are crucial for achieving remarkable feats, such as winning a Nobel Prize, even if one's IQ is considered average.
In practice
In a speech about innovative thinking in science and research.
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.
To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.
A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.
An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, operating ability or management competence, important as they may be.
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.
The defining factor [for success] is never resources; itβs resourcefulness.
When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.
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