For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. FeynmanI was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention--it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature. Any word can be spelled just as well a different way.
Richard P. FeynmanThe real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.
Richard P. FeynmanAny schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. When you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away...The next scheme, the new discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way.
Richard P. Feynman