Richard Feynman hailed “distrust of experts” as a…

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

— Leonard Susskind

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is…

— Charles Hard Townes

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we…

— Bill Bryson

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. — RICHARD FEYNMAN”

— Ryan Holiday

“Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman explaining in an interview one of his less orthodox productivity strategies: To do real good physics work, you do…

— Cal Newport

“Richard Feynman had to say this about energy in his 1961 lecture: “There is a fact, or if you wish, a law, governing all…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Richard P Feynman was fascinated by the Moon; he tried in earnest to see the Moon. But science could only see the Moon as…

— Avijeet Das

“Until I was twenty I was sure there was a being who could see everything I did and who didn't like most of it.…

— Alan Alda

[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven astronauts:] The…

— Freeman Dyson

My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on…

— Anonymous

Brighter Than a Thousand Suns' by Robert Jungk and 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' by Richard Feynman were both books my father purchased for…

— Baiju Bhatt

“First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If it disagrees…

— Anonymous

“The reason Dick 's physics was so hard for ordinary people to grasp was that he did not use equations. The usual theoretical physics…

— Freeman Dyson

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Richard Feynman, Rogers Commission Report (1986)”

— Martin Kleppmann