“There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.”
Source: Shakespeare's Secret
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Elise Broach 5
American writer 1963Related quotes
as quoted by [Colin Bruce, Schrödinger's rabbits: the many worlds of quantum, Joseph Henry Press, 2004, 0309090512, 213]
“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
"The Making of a Scientist," p. 14 <!-- Feynman used variants of this bird story repeatedly: (1) "What is Science?", presented at the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, in New York City (1966) published in The Physics Teacher, volume 7, issue 6 (1969), p. 313-320. (2) Interview for the BBC TV Horizon program "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981), published in Christopher Sykes, No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman (1994), p. 27. -->
What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988)
Context: You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You'll only know about humans in different places, and what they call the bird. … I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
The Mathematical Magic Show (1978)
