Richard P. Feynman Quotes

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

You can't win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, 'Why am I not winning this contest as well?' It's random. So truthfully, again, do I wish it weren't me? Absolutely. I still can't make that logistic jump to thinking there's a reason why it shouldn't be me.

Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.

Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.

You don't have any kind of control ultimately. Things are just going to happen as they will. And I think your best option sometimes is just to react rather than try to plan everything out in advance.

You can't control everything.

Life sort of works out the way it works out.

However it is I get on base, or whatever happens, happens.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

Whatever will happen will happen.