It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different… — 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 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
Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The other thing that gives a scientific man the creeps in the world today are the methods of choosing leaders - in… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real… — 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
