Richard Feynman Quotes
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Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.
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A great deal more is known than has been proved.
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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.
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This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.
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Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.
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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.
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
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As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!
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Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.
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If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
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I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.
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One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.
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No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was old and was always breaking. That the clock probably stopped some time before and the nurse coming in to the room to record the time of death would have looked at the clock and jotted down the time from that. I never made any supernatural connection, not even for a second. I just wanted to figure out how it happened.
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There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
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The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability
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It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.
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You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
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Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas brought in - a trial and error system.
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Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.
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We've learned from experience that the truth will out.