Richard Feynman Quotes
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You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.
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I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.
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Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.
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It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.
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But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.
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If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?
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Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life.
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Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.
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No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.
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[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.
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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
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We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
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When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.
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I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
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A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.
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The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know.
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I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!
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If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.
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My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.
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We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."
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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.