I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn't want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn't supposed… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me! — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people… — 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
I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Some people think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!' — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand. — 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
We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know. — 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
