Richard Feynman Quotes

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

Richard Feynman

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• There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • Knowledge
  • Alone

• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Purpose

• The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • People
  • Good
  • Small

• Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Knowledge
  • Lost
  • Grace

• Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Curiosity

• The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Kind

• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Perfect

• Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion

• There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• I've been teaching full-time for 41 years at small colleges, and I can't imagine what it would mean for me or my colleagues to be armed with handguns or rifles instead of books and a thorough knowledge of our chosen disciplines.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Time
  • Small
  • Knowledge

• 'Dogfight' was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that I could do this. I can step up and be present enough to command scenes with amazing actors.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Up
  • Knowledge
  • Amazing

• I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

  

  Elizabeth Kenny
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.

  

  Alan Huffman
  • Knowledge
  • Ocean

• The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

  

  Freda Adler
  • Knowledge

• Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Knowledge

• Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Why
  • Knowledge

• My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

  

  George Andrew Olah
  • Family
  • Father
  • Science

• Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.

  

  Friedrich Engels
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Knowledge

• Don't be ashamed of your age. You've lived a long time. You've learned a lot. Tout you knowledge. Be proud of your experience. Be proud of who you've become. Don't hide, and don't be ashamed like, "Oh my God. I'm nearly turning 50," or, "I'm turning 60. Shhh, don't tell nobody."

  

  Vanessa Bell Calloway
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• Existence is as deep a verity: Without the dual, where is unity? And the 'I am'' cannot forbear to be;But from its primal nature forced to frame Mysteries, destinies of various name, Is forced to give that it has taught to claim.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Unity

• I know that's definitely the way for me to run races - instead of trying to burn up at the front and blowing up, it's always better to be passing people at the end.

  

  Eloise Wellings
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

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

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Knowledge
  • Instruction
  • Enabling