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
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
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
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
People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me! Richard P. Feynman
Me People Think Way Nobody Often Certain Certain Way Such A Way Believes Honest
With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics. Richard P. Feynman
Laws Physicists Exception Known Quantum Ultimate Explanation Gravitation Phenomena
When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards. Richard P. Feynman
Man Courage Physics Try Hero Made Young Guess Had He Simply New Call Equation Doing Method Form Afterwards Young Man Breakthrough Now Interpret
Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off. Richard P. Feynman
Once Puzzle Off Get
Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories. Richard P. Feynman
History Physics Few Theories Many Phenomena
I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere - like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department - I would draw the other people. Richard P. Feynman
Time People Other Meeting Draw Drawing Would Develop Like Became Practiced Came Very Rogers Discuss Department Getting Where Psychology Whether Anywhere Interested Us Should
The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation? Richard P. Feynman
Result Become Past Before Sense Final State Our Philosophical Defined Would Would-Be Outside Observation Observer Make Track Does Real Were Question Same In The Past Us

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