Richard Feynman Quotes
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All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
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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 is simple, therefore it is beautiful
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I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.
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Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves
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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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I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.
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The exception tests the rule.
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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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I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.
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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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As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!
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What did you ASK at school today?
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I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.
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The test of all knowledge is experiment.
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No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
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Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.
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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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It is impossible, by the way, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense.
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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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The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.
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You do not know anything until you have practiced.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.