Richard Feynman Quotes
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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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Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.
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We've learned from experience that the truth will out.
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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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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I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.
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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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The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.
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When the problem quantum chromodynamics is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.
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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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The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting.
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What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. ... If we are told that the same experiment will always produce the same result, that is all very well, but if when we try it, it does not, then it does not. We just have to take what we see, and then formulate all the rest of our ideas in terms of our actual experience.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
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What did you ASK at school today?
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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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Few people realize the number of things that are possible.
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Science is of value because it can produce something.
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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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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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What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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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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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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We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.