57 Richard P. Feynman Quotes for You to Enjoy

Richard P. Feynman

American Physicist

Born: May 11, 1918

Died: Feb 15, 1988

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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

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

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

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

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

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

It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent. Richard P. Feynman

Algebra Dissimilar Approaches Fact Quantum Equation Quantum Mechanics Equivalent Proved Were Mathematical Mathematically Historical Historical Fact Matrix Began Curious Modern Quite Different Apparently Mechanics Differential Two

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.' Richard P. Feynman

Mother Father Before Born He Boy Scientist Going

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

Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea. Richard P. Feynman

Beautiful Achievement Physics Space Single Relations Resulted Exciting Idea Greatest Said Geometry Einstein Which Theoretical Theory Connecting Gravitational Phenomena

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

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