Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman

electrons don’t act on themselves, they only act on other electrons.

that you don’t have to be responsible for the world that you’re in.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.

I started out by defining science as an understanding of the behavior of nature.