Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes… — 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… — 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… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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
“I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this,… — 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
If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“So our problem is to explain where symmetry comes from. Why is nature so nearly symmetrical? No one has any idea why.… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before.… — 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
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of… — 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
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
In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known"… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“In general, we look for a new law by the following process: First we guess it; then we compute the consequences of… — 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
Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations. — 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
