Nature Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

Nature...cannot be fooled!

— Richard P. Feynman

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

— Richard P. Feynman

Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.

— 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

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

— Richard P. Feynman

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

— Richard P. Feynman

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

— Richard P. Feynman

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

— Richard P. Feynman

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

— Richard P. Feynman

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

— Richard P. Feynman

I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.

— Richard P. Feynman

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

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

— Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

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

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

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here:…

— Richard P. Feynman

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

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

This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look…

— Richard P. Feynman

I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something…

— Richard P. Feynman

... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without…

— Richard P. Feynman

If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

“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

'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

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

“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

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

“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

Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.

— Richard P. Feynman

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

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

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

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