Decadentia

“Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad ting depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“What I got out of that story was something still very new to me: I understood at last what art is really for, at least in certain respects. It gives somebody, individually, pleasure. You can make something that somebody likes so much that they’re depressed, or they’re happy, on account of that damn thing you made! In science, it’s sort of general and large: You don’t know the individuals who have appreciated it directly. I understood that to sell a drawing is not to make money, but to be sure that it’s in the home of someone who really wants it; someone who would feel bad if they didn’t have it. This was interesting.”
― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

“If you try once or twice to communicate and get pushed back, pretty soon you decide, “To hell with it.”
― Richard P. Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character

“Только тот д-достигнет цели, кто не знает с-слова «страх»...”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Понедельник начинается в субботу