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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

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

That's the trouble with not being in your own field: You don't take it seriously. — Richard 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

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