Richard Feynman Quotes
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Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.
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It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... but I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.
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To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.
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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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I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.
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Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and back surfaces. In this intuitively easy analysis, the 'front surface' and 'back surface' arrows are mathematical constructions that give us the right answer, whereas .... a more accurate representation of what is really going on: partial reflection is the scattering of light by electrons inside the glass.
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I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are 'entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the subject and in people's interest in it.
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I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things
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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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Everything is made of atoms.
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If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .
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When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out how to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.
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Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.
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Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.
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In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.
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The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.
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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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One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
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If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.