Richard Feynman Quotes
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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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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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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
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The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.
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While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.
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To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
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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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Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.
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It is to be emphasized that no matter how many amplitude arrows we draw, add, or multiply, our objective is to calculate a single final arrow for the event . Mistakes are often made by physics students at first because they do not keep this important point in mind. They work for so long analyzing events involving a single photon that they begin to think that the arrow is somehow associated with the photon rather than with the event.
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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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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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All we know so far is what doesn't work.
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The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until suddenly I find myself momentarily alone before one new corner of nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty revealed. That was my reward.
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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 think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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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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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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Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.
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Beyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.
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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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Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.