Richard Feynman Quotes

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

Richard Feynman

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• History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Men
  • Important
  • Long

• Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • War
  • Amazing
  • Universe

• I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Age
  • Kind

• I have a Pinterest, and if you look there you'll see the things I really like and adore, have crushes on, and there's a lot of stuff from Riccardo's [Tisci] line on there.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Looks
  • Crush
  • Lines

• The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Persons
  • Anger
  • Controversy

• The wise with hope support the pains of life.

  

  Euripides
  • Life
  • Support
  • Wise

• If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle: don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds. To him who is a discoverer in this field the products of his imagination appear so necessary and natural that he regards them, and would like to have them regarded by others, not as creations of thought but as given realities.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Realities
  • Find Out
  • Methods

• A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mistake
  • Teachers
  • Great Man

• Frankly, I had enjoyed the war… and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?

  

  Adrian Carton de Wiart
  • People
  • War
  • Fun

• Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, "What is truth?" Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we will hold it as a sacred inviolable thing. But in the absence of that infallible criterion, we have all an equal right to grope about in our search of it, and no body and no school nor clique must be allowed to set up a standard of orthodoxy which shall bar the freedom of scientific inquiry.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • School
  • Body
  • Equal

• Donald Trump always takes care of Donald and people like Donald.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Care
  • Donald Trump

• State is the nation socially organized.

  

  Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
  • Nation
  • State
  • Organized

• I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

  

  Richard Land
  • School
  • Graduates

• I let the insults go by. A good swordsman doesn't pay attention to words in a fight.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Fight
  • Pay Attention
  • Insults

• I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Long
  • Fast
  • Programming

• I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Love
  • Art
  • Philosophy

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

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Programming
  • Mechanic
  • Quantum