Richard Feynman Quotes
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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Few people realize the number of things that are possible.
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What did you ASK at school today?
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As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.
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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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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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The exception tests the rule.
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The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting.
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The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.
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People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about what we know pretty well. They always want to know the things we don't know.
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I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not.
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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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Every instrument that has been designed to be sensitive enough to detect weak light has always ended up discovering that the same thing: light is made of particles.
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Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.
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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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We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.
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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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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
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Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.
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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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What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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Science is of value because it can produce something.
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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.