Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.
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We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!
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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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I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.
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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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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!
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The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting.
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The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.
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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.
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If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist.
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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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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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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.
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Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.
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Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
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Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.
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People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!
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But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea.
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To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.
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We've learned from experience that the truth will out.
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Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.