[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. — RICHARD FEYNMAN” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“The Feynman Dilemma A diner says to a waiter, “What’s this fly doing in my soup?” And the waiter says, “It looks… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I wonder how Feynman would feel if he had to be talking to not just a few nuts of this kind but… — Lubos Motl Copy Share Image
[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Dick Feynman was a genius of visualization (he was also no slouch with equations): he made a mental picture of anything he… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“All our bright minds,” Feynman said sardonically, “and we can’t figure how to stop the enemy from dumping dirt on us.” Freeman… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“But our relationship to these infinite pasts and futures isn’t random—plausibility throws its weight around, per some freaky quantum mechanics stuff that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns' by Robert Jungk and 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' by Richard Feynman were both books my father… — Baiju Bhatt Copy Share Image
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The questions of the students are often the source of new research. They often ask profound questions that I’ve thought about at… — Richard Feyman Copy Share Image
“The reason Dick 's physics was so hard for ordinary people to grasp was that he did not use equations. The usual… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman explaining in an interview one of his less orthodox productivity strategies: To do real good physics work,… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Until I was twenty I was sure there was a being who could see everything I did and who didn't like most… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“Richard Feynman had to say this about energy in his 1961 lecture: “There is a fact, or if you wish, a law,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“I don’t mind not knowing. It doesn’t scare me. —RICHARD FEYNMAN” — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“Richard Feynman hailed “distrust of experts” as a cornerstone of science,” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.” —Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate in physics” — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great… — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image
There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way—by rote or something.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Even a good, inveterate atheist like physicist Richard Feynman once said of the fine structure constant, “All good theoretical physicists put this… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
Intuition was not just visual but also auditory and kinesthetic. Those who watched Feynman in moments of intense concentration came away with… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Quite obviously, a theoretical determination of the numerical value of α would signify great progress in our understanding of fundamental interactions. Many… — Harald Fritzsch Copy Share Image
“If you want to win this argument with Dad, look in chapter two of the first book of the Feynman Lectures on… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Another time somebody gave a talk about poetry. He talked about the structure of the poem and the emotions that come with… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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