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 Spirit is not given to make Bible study needless, but to make it effective.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.
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