Richard P. Feynman Quotes

Richard P. Feynman
American Physicist
Born: May 11, 1918
Died: Feb 15, 1988
First Me Nature People Physics You
Related authors: Barry Barish Brian Greene Edward Teller Freeman Dyson J. Robert Oppenheimer Lawrence M. Krauss Martin H. Fischer Michio Kaku
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard P. Feynman
You Fool Yourself First Easiest Must Principle Person
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. Richard P. Feynman
Beautiful You Smart Matter Experiment Wrong How Your Theory Agree
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. Richard P. Feynman
Nature Organization Fabric Threads Weave Entire Only Small Small Piece Longest Piece Reveals Tapestry Patterns Uses Each Her
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. Richard P. Feynman
Hope History Man Ignorance Before Some Admission Direction Uncertainty Various Periods Permanently Motion Blocked Continuous Times Get Human Confined The History Of Human Beings Many Beings
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Richard P. Feynman
Nature Reality Relations Must Fooled Take Over Precedence Cannot Public Public Relations
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. Richard P. Feynman
Future Time Problems Responsibility Beginning Our Solutions Thousands Thousands Of Years Unreasonable Tens Tens Of Thousands Learn Pass Years Very Improve Human Race Them Human Race
I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!' Richard P. Feynman
Attitude You People Care Thought Think Other Should
Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party. Richard P. Feynman
Good Beer Party Matters Think Good Place More Because Intellectual Discuss Than America Place Much Europeans Serious
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard P. Feynman
Nature Technology Reality Relations Must Fooled Take Over Precedence Cannot Public Successful Public Relations
I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. Richard P. Feynman
Attitude Great Mind Value First Live Think Ought Must Vital Admit Uncertainty Student Know Great Value Answers Scientist Questions Different Which Acquire Realize Then Actually
The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life? Richard P. Feynman
Life Insects Sense Flower Adds Evolved See Fact Colors Attract Also Does Aesthetic Exist Question Order Forms Interesting Lower Means
The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth. Richard P. Feynman
Made Atoms Stars Earth Those Astronomy Kind Remarkable Most Discovery Same
The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life. Richard P. Feynman
Life Beautiful Chemistry Other Machinery Out Something Parts Interconnected Turns Internal
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. Richard P. Feynman
Problems Looking Believe Guy Scientist Dumb Just Next
See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. Richard P. Feynman
Nature Man Imagination See Greater Than Far
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate. Richard P. Feynman
God Good Man Struggle Good And Evil Evil Edge Lost Stage Seems Uncertainty Mystery Scientific Arranged End Impressive Inadequate Theory Views Deep Appear Awe Watch
We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries - and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate? Richard P. Feynman
Great Physics Result Mysteries Important Important Things Energy Universe Would Would-Be Total Investigate Exciting Studying Most Important Questions Were Questions Get The Most Important After Should Use Therefore Why Zero Things
It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem. Richard P. Feynman
Me Problem Become Define Obvious Sure Real Real Problem Suspect Cannot Therefore
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another. Richard P. Feynman
Judge Try Value Judgment Help Others Others Give Direction Idea Leads Particular Another Contribution Just Information Your Help
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? Richard P. Feynman
Science Atoms Beauty Stars Too Say See More Poets Takes Mere Feel Them Less Desert Away Gas Night
I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way. Richard P. Feynman
Me Believe Honors Papa Way Brought Bother Bothers Up Uniforms
When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it. Richard P. Feynman
Time Library Man Important Reading Ought About Knew Calculus Practical Learn Subject Encyclopedia Get Going Interesting Thirteen
If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly. Richard P. Feynman
Future Time Will Predict State Say We Cannot Exactly Atom Only Emission Excited Any Going Probability Cannot Certain
Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen. Richard P. Feynman
You Experience Clouds Seen Nothing Waves Scale About Direct Direct Experience Small Small Scale Weights Particles Like Springs Balls Very Behave Any Anything Ever Things
Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things. Richard P. Feynman
Day Will Approximate Machines One Day Tell About Computers Perhaps How Very Task Meantime Descriptions Cope Things
From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work - not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules. Richard P. Feynman
Work Physics Way Rules Point Point Of View New Most Course Discover New Places Where Which Places Interesting View Basic Phenomena
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