Richard P. Feynman

Quotes

• “I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to re...”
• “Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle t...”
• “If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regio...”
• “The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a pow...”
• “I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere - ...”
• “People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't ...”
• “All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is i...”
• “When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to ...”
• “The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics t...”
• “Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressiv...”
• “Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in...”
• “There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interf...”
• “The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever w...”
• “You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of ...”
• “Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to ...”
• “Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a dese...”
• “I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, o...”
• “The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not ...”
• “Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organizat...”
• “See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
• “Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
• “Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.”
• “Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.”