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• If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 10E5, I know he's full of crap.
  -- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988) -- "What Do You Care What Other People Think?...
• When I see a congressman giving his opinion on something, I always wonder if it represents his *real* opinion or if it represents an opinion that he's designed in order to be elected.
  It seems to be a central problem for politicians....
• My father had the spirit and integrity of a scientist, but he was a salesman.
  I remember asking him the question "How can a man of integrity be a salesman?...
• But then a new problem came up: the Jupiter probe, Galileo, was going to use a power supply that runs on heat generated by radioactivity.
  If the shuttle carrying Galileo failed, radioactivity could be spread over a large area....
• Do you know what I learned from you? I learned what is possible, and now I must hold out for what I thought we had.
  I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me....
• The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be.
  If you have a theory, you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally....
• The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on.
  Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man.
  But as I walked on eastward that afternoon through my private, segregated, Tonto world (exercising due care at first for previously protected sectors of my anatomy) I found I had gained more than coolness....