It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough,… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind… — 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
The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When a photon comes down, it interacts with electrons throughout the glass, not just on the surface. The photon and electrons do… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency.… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.… — 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