No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
Interpretation
Every problem, regardless of its size, matters if we can address it effectively.
Richard P. Feynman's quote emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and addressing all problems, no matter how insignificant they may appear. It highlights the value of taking action and the belief that our efforts can make a difference, reinforcing the idea that every challenge is worthy of our attention if we have the means to resolve it.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges, one could quote Feynman to inspire 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.
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others
If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.
You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.
It sounds kind of crazy, but in times of turmoil in the market, I've felt a sort of serenity in knowing that I've checked and re-checked my work, one plus one still equals two regardless of where a stock trades right after I buy it.
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