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Richard P. Feynman Quotes
Richard P. Feynman Quotes
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
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
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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