Richard P. Feynman Quotes

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.

There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.

Anomaly is when you don't fit the expected norm. Like "wait what is this?! It doesn't belong here." Its what the system never planned for but now has to adapt to. Its Neo in The Matrix.

The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting.

The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

It seems to me that stare decisis ought to be applied even to the doctrine of stare decisis, and I confess never to have heard of this new, keep-what-you-want-and-throw-away-the-rest version.

What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

I think the people get that I'm just kind of an anomaly in a certain way.

The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.

Everything is a test.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

None shall take advantage of his own wrong.

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

There is no such thing in life as normal.

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.

The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.

The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.