Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the supremacy of love over scientific pursuits.
Richard P. Feynman, a renowned physicist, suggests that while physics and scientific inquiry are significant, they pale in comparison to the value of love in our lives. The statement invites reflection on what truly matters in human experience, putting emotional connections above intellectual achievements.
In practice
In a meeting on personal values, this quote could be shared to highlight the significance of emotional connections.
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.
You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for β in other words, cheered on β by people who feel different.
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
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