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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
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
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
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
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
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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