Inspirational Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

The easiest person to fool is yourself.

— Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

— Richard P. Feynman

What did you ASK at school today?

— Richard P. Feynman

Phenomena complex-laws simple…Know what to leave out.

— Richard P. Feynman

A great deal more is known than has been proved.

— Richard P. Feynman

Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.

— Richard P. Feynman

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things

— Richard P. Feynman

The exception tests the rule.

— Richard P. Feynman

We've learned from experience that the truth will come out.

— Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

— Richard P. Feynman

We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be. She's always got better imagination than we have.

— Richard P. Feynman

What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them?

— Richard P. Feynman

It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

— Richard P. Feynman

It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.

— Richard P. Feynman

If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much…

— Richard P. Feynman

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.

— Richard P. Feynman

It is impossible, by the way, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense.

— Richard P. Feynman

Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore,…

— Richard P. Feynman

When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know…

— Richard P. Feynman

While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands…

— Richard P. Feynman

When things are going well, something will go wrong. / When things just can't get any worse, they will. / Anytime things…

— Richard P. Feynman

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…

— Richard P. Feynman

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge…

— Richard P. Feynman

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived…

— Richard P. Feynman

“Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in…

— Richard P. Feynman

There's plenty of room at the bottom.

— Richard P. Feynman

The same equations have the same solutions

— Richard P. Feynman

Work hard to find something that fascinates you.

— Richard P. Feynman

Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves

— Richard P. Feynman

The test of all knowledge is experiment.

— Richard P. Feynman

Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.

— Richard P. Feynman

I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.

— Richard P. Feynman

The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting.

— Richard P. Feynman

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

— Richard P. Feynman

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

— Richard P. Feynman

“I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.”

— Richard P. Feynman

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it

— Richard P. Feynman

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

— Richard P. Feynman

As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!

— Richard P. Feynman

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

— Richard P. Feynman