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Richard P. Feynman

American Physicist

Born: May 11, 1918

Died: Feb 15, 1988

First Me Nature People Physics You

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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

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

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task. Richard P. Feynman

Together Long Investigating Particles Forces Task Hold Nuclear

When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn't any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena. Richard P. Feynman

Natural World Try Wind Tell Would Some Miracle About Shaking Terms Real Leaves Were Hear Fit Any The Real World Real World Rabbi Explain Bush Natural Phenomena Whose Phenomena

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

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

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory. Richard P. Feynman

Situation Experiment Directly Idea Concept Sciences Exist Referred May Cannot Which Useful Measured Theory Need

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