Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Interpretation
Pursue your passions with intensity and creativity, without strict adherence to conventional methods.
This quote by Richard P. Feynman emphasizes the importance of studying what you are truly passionate about. It encourages individuals to approach learning with a spirit of curiosity and originality, suggesting that the most effective way to learn is through a personal and sometimes unconventional exploration of one's interests.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a commencement speech to inspire graduates to pursue their interests.
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.
The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.
When girls are educated and free to pursue their passions, they contribute more to a thriving society. When women have a voice, they raise it to demand a life that is greater than what they've been told they have a right to expect. And these demands change the future for everyone.
I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
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