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 can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.

  

  William Sleator
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Between

• Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

  

  Raymond Loewy
  • Winning
  • Function
  • Products

• Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.

  

  Gerald Weinberg
  • Learning
  • Genius
  • Ordinary

• Growing up, all I saw was my parents trying to be the best people they could be, and people coming to them for wisdom, coming to them for guidance, and them not putting themselves on a pedestal, but literally being face-to-face with these people and saying, "I'm no better than you, but the fact that you're coming to me to reach some sort of enlightenment or to shine a light on something, that makes me feel love and gratitude for you." They always give back what people give to them. And sometimes they keep giving and giving and giving.

  

  Willow Smith
  • People
  • Giving
  • Shining

• Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.

  

  Josh Groban
  • World
  • Art
  • Connector

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

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Programming
  • Mechanic
  • Quantum