Richard Feynman Quotes
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No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.
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There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.
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Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully.
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Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.
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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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Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.
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Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.
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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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God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
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It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.
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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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I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
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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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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
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Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"
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The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.
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Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.
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It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
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Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself
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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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Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.