Quotes "What one fool can do, another can do better." "...on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics. I believe this is probably because we respect the arts more than the sciences." "I think the problem is not to find the best or most efficient method to proceed to a discovery, but to find any method at all." "There were little annoyances from censorship and so forth and checking in at the gates and all kinds of things. But there wasn't, it was understandable that such a thing had to go on. In fact, most of the complaints was that security was rather lax in places. There would be big holes in the outside fence that a man could walk through standing up. I used to enjoy going out through the gate and coming through the fence hole, and going out through the gate again, and in through the fence hole until the poor sergeant at the gate would gradually realize that this guy has come out of the place four times without going in once." "Every thing I say is a lie. Everything I say is false. I love you! " --Feynman singing to a pretty girl at Esalen in Big Sur while drumming on the bongo.