Richard Feynman Quotes
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Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.
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If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
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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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Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.
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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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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 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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A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.
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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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Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and back surfaces. In this intuitively easy analysis, the 'front surface' and 'back surface' arrows are mathematical constructions that give us the right answer, whereas .... a more accurate representation of what is really going on: partial reflection is the scattering of light by electrons inside the glass.
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Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.
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I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.
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Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
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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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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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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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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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Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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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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All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
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We've learned from experience that the truth will out.
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Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.