Richard Feynman Quotes
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... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics. I am sorry, but this seems to be the case.
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Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.
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Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
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People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.
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What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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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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The other thing that gives a scientific man the creeps in the world today are the methods of choosing leaders - in every nation. Today, for example, in the United States, the two political parties have decided to employ public relations men, that is, advertising men, who are trained in the necessary methods of telling the truth or lying in order to develop a product.
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If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.
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I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.
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If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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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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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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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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We've learned from experience that the truth will out.
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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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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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Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.
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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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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.
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All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
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You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.