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A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feynman Lectures on Physics), I received a long letter from a feminist group. I was accused of being anti-women because of two stories: the first was a discussion of the subtleties of velocity, and involved a woman driver being stopped by a cop. There's a discussion about how fast she was going, and I had her raise valid objections to the cop's definitions of velocity. The letter said I was making the women look stupid. The other story they objected to was told by the great astronomer Arthur Eddington, who had just figured out that the stars get their power from burning hydrogen in a nuclear reaction producing helium. He recounted how, on the night after his discovery, he was sitting on a bench with his girlfriend. She said, "Look how pretty the stars shine!" To which he replied, "Yes, and right now, I'm the only man in the world who knows how they shine." He was describing a kind of wonderful loneliness you have when you make a discovery. The letter claimed that I was saying a women is incapable of understanding nuclear reactions. I figured there was no point in trying to answer their accusations in detail, so I wrote a short letter back to them: "Don't bug me, Man!


Richard P. Feynman


#deep-thoughts #humor-inspirational #ignorance #ignoring-issues #incapable-of-interpreted

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.


Susan Sontag


#i #interpret #life #looking #my life

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.


John Berger


#any #belongs #does #drawing #however

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.


Henri Bergson


#always #comic #different #each #events

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.


James Dean


#actor #experiences #fact #feet #his

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.


James Dean


#dedication #duty #express #full #grasp

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.


Catherine Drinker Bowen


#fresh #interpret #life #purpose #reproduce

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.


Marlon Brando


#dedication #duty #express #full #grasp

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.


Sigmund Freud


#activities #interpretation #knowledge #mind #road

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.


Deepak Chopra


#environment #existence #fixed #interpreting #just






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