As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about… — 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
The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be. She's always got better imagination than we have. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the… — 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