I’ve already got the prize, the prize is the pleasure of finding things out; the kick in the discovery; the observation other people use it. Those are the real things!
The honours are unreal to me. I don’t believe in honours. It bothers me. Honours bothers me! Honours is epaulettes. Honours is uniforms. My Poppa brought me up this way. I can’t stand it. It hurts me.
*Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident. 1986
In its appendix, Feynman added a stark reminder, about the limits of science,
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled”.
