“Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them." He put the cigarette down. Smoke rose from the ashtray, first in a thin column and then (with a nod to universality) in broken tendrils that swirled upward to the ceiling.” ScienceMathematics Book:Chaos: Making a New Science Source: Chaos: Making a New Science
“For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket.” RealityScienceImaginationPowerfulKnownKnowledgeCreativityEssenceScientistPainfulRichard Feynman Book:Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman Source: Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman
“"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.” ScienceEnergyRealizingHalfModernGeniusObsessionBurningModern ScienceNew FriendsFreemanBedrockBuffoonsRichard Feynman Book:Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman Source: Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman
