On division of learning: Although we humans cut nature up in different ways, and we have different courses in different departments, such compartmentalization is really artificial, and we should take our intellectual pleasures where we find them. On nature: Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. On physicists and energy: For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy. On the atomic bomb: I would see people building a bridge, or they'd be making a new road, and I thought, they're crazy, they just don't understand, they don't understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless. On teachers: Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers in the preceding generation. On higher learning: I learned from her that the highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. On physics: Dear Mrs. Chown, Ignore your son's attempts to teach you physics. Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is. Best wishes, Richard Feynman. ------------------------------------------- Bless you, Mr. Feynman.