Richard Feynman Quotes
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Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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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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The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability
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Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.
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There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists who experiment, imagine, deduce, and guess.
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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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Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing.
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What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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You do not know anything until you have practiced.
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All we know so far is what doesn't work.
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In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.
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Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
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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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Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.
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To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.
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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 thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting.
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I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.
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I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.