63 result(s) for Richard P. Feynman Quotes.
"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."
"Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
"I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!"
"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird, so let's look at the bird and see what it's doing—that's what counts."
"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars—mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?"
"The most important thing is to keep the most important thing the most important thing."
"I think nature's imagination is so much greater than man's; she's never going to let us relax."
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"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."
"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird..."
"I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything."
"The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think."
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
"Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation."
"Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you... "
"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."
"Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical."
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool."
"What I cannot create, I do not understand."
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
"The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific 'truth'."
"Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."
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"The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty damn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt."
"It is impossible to find an answer which someday will not be found to be wrong."
"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is 'mere'. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?"
"Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if we ignore the facts, we will have to abandon the theories."
"You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You'll only know about humans in different places, and what they call the bird."
"I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb."
"The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment."
"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."
"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird."
"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
"The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."
"You don't like it? Go somewhere else! To another universe where the rules are simpler."
"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics."
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
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"Why do you care what other people think?"
"The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be."
"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you."
"It is by the Neurtron that what you see and what you are and what you remember is made up."
"See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."
"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them."
"There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics."
"The world looks so different after learning science. For example, trees are made of air, primarily. When they are burnt, they go back to air, and in the flaming heat is released the flaming heat of the sun which was bound in to convert the air into tree."
"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned."
"Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is."
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."
"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."
"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."
"The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to."
"You don't have to know the answer. You will learn from posing the question."
"I think nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax."
"I would like to have engraved inside every wedding ring: Be kind to one another. This is the golden rule of marriage and the secret of making love last through the years."
"The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things if you look at it right."
"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?"
"Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough."
"The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion."
"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."
"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."
"Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough."
"There's plenty of room at the bottom."
"I have no belief, but I believe that a man must be a very bad man not to be bettered by a child."
"You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about that bird... just what we call that bird."
"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."
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