The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Only realistic flight schedules should be proposed, schedules that have a reasonable chance of being met. If in this way the government… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible! — 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
