spaceplasma:

“I don’t like honors. I’m appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use my work. I don’t need anything else. I don’t think there’s any sense to anything else. I don’t see that it makes any point that someone in the Swedish Academy decides that this work is noble enough to receive a prize. I’ve already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things. The honors are unreal to me. I don’t believe in honors. It bothers me, honors. Honors is epilets, honors is uniforms.”

- Richard Feynman

Winning the Nobel Prize [video]

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“Stand in a lift and let people take you to random floors. When they ask what you’re doing, say you’re a wanderer in the third dimension.”

“Richard [E. Grant] told me that Paul [McGann] must be the sexiest man alive. I tell Paul this. This elicits a lengthy pause, and a wry smile. “He’s a strange bloke,” Paul mutters, eventually.”

“Ten minutes later. Miranda brought a tray full of tea things into the front room. On it were an antique pot, cups and saucers in the finest bone china, and some Kipling cakes, which the Doctor was rather partial to. Don’t worry, that’s not a continuity reference or an in-joke, no need to look it up. He just liked the taste.”

“Funnily enough, my daughter’s little girl - David and Georgia’s little girl, Olive, used to carry around a little model of David. Which I thought was very sweet until she - one day she bit his head off… I think I’m her favourite Doctor”

“Chapter 1: I was a baby when I was born. I remember it all quite well. When the doctor pulled me out I did not cry. I issued commands. ‘Bring me some jerky’ I told him.”

Eight Burgundy

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