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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Study Guide

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by Richard Feynman
About 49 pages (14,634 words)
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"People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way—in such a way that often nobody believes me!" p. 41.

"So I found hypnosis to be a very interesting experience. All the time your saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't'—which is just another way of saying that you can't," p. 68.

"So I got a great reputation for doing integrals, only because my box of tools was different from everybody else's, and they had tried all their tools before giving the problem to me," p. 87.

"When a person has been negative to you, and then you do something like that, they're usually a hundred percent the other way, kind of to compensate," p. 20.

"I learned there that innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world," p. 29.

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