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 Copy Share Image
The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Out of the cradle onto the dry land here it is standing: atoms with consciousness; matter with curiosity. Stands at the sea… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“If we were to name the most powerful assumption of all, which leads one on and on in an attempt to understand… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“There was an interesting early relationship between physics and biology in which biology helped physics in the discovery of the conservation of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be… — 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
You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. — 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
