What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid - not only what you think… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We've learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Philosophers have said before that one of the fundamental requisites of science is that whenever you set up the same conditions, the same thing… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“There was a Princess Somebody of Denmark sitting at a table with a number of people around her, and I saw an empty chair… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“There's a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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