Richard Feynman Quotes
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The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds
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If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
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Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves
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Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.
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If you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid - not only what you think is right about it; other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked -to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.
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There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
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When the problem quantum chromodynamics is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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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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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
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We've learned from experience that the truth will out.
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Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.
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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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The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.
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Science is of value because it can produce something.
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The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.
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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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There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.
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When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out how to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.
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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
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Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!