Richard P. Feynman quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Richard P. Feynman

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Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

Don't worry about anything ... Go out and have a good time.

The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.

The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.

The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.

Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party.

We've learned from experience that the truth will come out.

As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.

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.

If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple.

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability

We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

Nature ... cannot be fooled!

Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.

To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.

If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

The unanswerable mysteries ... the attitude that all is uncertain ... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

The same equations have the same solutions

I don't believe I can really do without teaching.

It is simple, therefore it is beautiful

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

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.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Science is of value because it can produce something.

If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.

To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

You do not know anything until you have practiced.

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.

To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.

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.

In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself.

But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea.

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.

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.

Phenomena complex-laws simple ... Know what to leave out.

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.

As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.

While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

Science is uncertain.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad - but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.

I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.

Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem.

You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off.

If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty
some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

We are not to tell nature what she's gotta be. She's always got better imagination than we have.

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

What did you ASK at school today?

The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.

We are never right, we can only be sure we are wrong.

What I can't create I don't understand

If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into.

Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves

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

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

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

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

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!

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.