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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

Even a very small effect sometimes requires profound changes in our ideas — Richard Feynman

it is our capacity to doubt that will determine the future of civilization. — Richard 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

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world. — Richard P. Feynman

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things — Richard P. Feynman

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

It is impossible, by the way, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense. — Richard P. Feynman

What one fool can understand, another can. — Richard P. Feynman

The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance. — Richard Feynman

Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves — Richard P. Feynman

There's plenty of room at the bottom. — Richard P. Feynman

As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing! — 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

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. — Richard Feynman

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. — Richard Feynman

What I cannot create, I do not understand. — Richard Feynman

Conservation just means that it does not change. — Richard 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

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. — Richard P. Feynman

Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea. — Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way for us to not fool ourselves. — Richard P. Feynman

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part. — Richard Feynman

We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation. — Richard P. Feynman

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation. — Richard Feynman

Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose! — Richard P. Feynman

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there. - Richard Feynman — James Gleick

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. — Richard Feynman

I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end. — Richard Feynman

did learn a lesson: The female mind is capable — Richard Feynman

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me. - RICHARD FEYNMAN — Lawrence M. Krauss

What I cannot build. I do not understand. — 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

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding. — 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

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

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions. — Richard P. Feynman

A scientist is never certain ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. — Richard P. Feynman

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. — 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

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves. — 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

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

To every man is given the key to Heaven. The same key opens the gates of Hell. — Richard 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

I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more. — Richard Feynman