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Anything can happen, in spite of what you're pretty sure should happen.
— Richard Feynman
Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.
— Richard P. Feynman
The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.
— Richard P. Feynman
Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.
— Richard P. Feynman
Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.
— Richard Feynman
The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual ... the humility of the spirit.
— Richard P. Feynman
We've learned from experience that the truth will come out.
— Richard P. Feynman
I ... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
— Richard Feynman
There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.
— Richard P. Feynman
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
— Richard P. Feynman
The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability
— Richard P. Feynman
It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is
— Richard P. Feynman
The same equations have the same solutions
— Richard P. Feynman
I don't believe I can really do without teaching.
— Richard P. Feynman
Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing.
— Richard P. Feynman
The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things
— Richard P. Feynman
While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.
— Richard P. Feynman
People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me!
— Richard P. Feynman
Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.
— Richard P. Feynman
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
— Richard P. Feynman
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
— Richard P. Feynman
Richard Feynman once wrote, "If you ever hear yourself saying, 'I think I understand this,' that means you don't.
— Steven Pinker
The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
— Richard Feynman
...we do not yet know all the basic laws: there is an expanding frontier of ignorance
— Richard Feynman
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
— Richard Feynman
There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.
— Richard P. Feynman
Science is a way for us to not fool ourselves.
— Richard P. Feynman
There's plenty of room at the bottom.
— Richard P. Feynman
What one fool can understand, another can.
— Richard P. Feynman
So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.
— Richard P. Feynman
We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."
— Richard P. Feynman
So when you try to squeeze light too much to make sure it's going in only a straight line, it refuses to cooperate and begins to spread out.
— Richard Feynman
I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it's really saying.
— Richard Feynman
The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.
— Richard P. Feynman
I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.
— Richard P. Feynman
Don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote,
— Richard Feynman
But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea.
— Richard P. Feynman
It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.
— Richard P. Feynman
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
— Richard P. Feynman
I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax
— Richard Feynman
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.
— Richard Feynman
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.
— Richard Feynman
I won't have anything to do with the Nobel Prize ... it's a pain in the ... (LAUGHS). I don't like honors.
— Richard Feynman
If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.
— Richard P. Feynman
Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.
— Richard P. Feynman
Some people think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy.
— Richard P. Feynman
No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.
— Richard P. Feynman
Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'
— Richard P. Feynman
We are not to tell nature what she's gotta be. She's always got better imagination than we have.
— Richard P. Feynman
So the librarians at UCLA worked very hard to find another copy of Villacorta's rendition of the Dresden Codex, and lent it to me.
— Richard Feynman
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
— Richard Feynman
Feynman once wrote, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
— Stephen Hawking
did learn a lesson: The female mind is capable
— Richard Feynman
Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.
— Richard P. Feynman
The price of gaining such an accurate theory has been the erosion of our common sense.
— Richard Feynman
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
— Richard P. Feynman
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad - but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
— Richard P. Feynman
I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
— Richard P. Feynman
Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem.
— Richard P. Feynman
Mathematics is not a science from our point of view, in the sense that it is not a natural science. The test of its validity is not experiment.
— Richard Feynman
You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.
— Richard P. Feynman
But that was my big moment: I gave a seminar in the biology department at Harvard! I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go. I
— Richard Feynman
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough.
— Richard Feynman
Whether the proton decays or not is not known. To prove that it does not decay is very difficult.
— Richard Feynman
Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off.
— Richard P. Feynman
I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work.
— Richard P. Feynman
If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler.
— Richard P. Feynman
The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.
— Richard P. Feynman
How much do you value life?" "Sixty-four.
— Richard Feynman
I learned from her that every woman is worried
about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is. — Richard Feynman
about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is. — Richard Feynman
All ordinary phenomena can be explained by the actions and the motions of particles. For
— Richard Feynman
All we know so far is what doesn't work.
— Richard P. Feynman
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty
some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. — Richard P. Feynman
some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. — Richard P. Feynman
The easiest person to fool is yourself.
— Richard P. Feynman
It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss.
— Richard P. Feynman
To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.
— Richard P. Feynman
Life behind him by this time (he died in 1988), so he could reflect on his experiences and accomplishments with the
— Richard Feynman
Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.
— Richard P. Feynman
It was no secret joke that brought the smile and the sparkle in his eye, it was physics.
— Feynman, Richard
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
— Richard Feynman
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
— Richard P. Feynman
Science is uncertain.
— Richard P. Feynman
Richard Feynman famously said that the first step in discovering a new physical law is to guess it. It
— Jason Wilkes
There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.
— Richard P. Feynman
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.
— Richard P. Feynman
The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!
— Richard P. Feynman
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
— Richard Feynman
The exception tests the rule.
— Richard P. Feynman
Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.
— Richard P. Feynman
Work hard to find something that fascinates you.
— Richard P. Feynman
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
— Richard Feynman
As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.
— Richard P. Feynman
Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.
— Richard P. Feynman
Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.
— Richard P. Feynman
I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.
— Richard Feynman