I don't like honors. ... 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.

— Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1981)

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEwUwWh5Xs4&t=24m55s

From an interview recorded for The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1981).

Topics: creativity