[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“If instead of arranging the atoms in some definite pattern, again and again repeated, on and on, or even forming little lumps… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The reason Dick 's physics was so hard for ordinary people to grasp was that he did not use equations. The usual… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
“I believe there's nothing in hallucinations that has anything to do with anything external to the internal psychological state of the person… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“Until I was twenty I was sure there was a being who could see everything I did and who didn't like most… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“My father had the spirit and integrity of a scientist, but he was a salesman. I remember asking him the question "How… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feynman Lectures on Physics),… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“The taxi driver felt that it was a good observation, and said he was planning to build for the future, too: he… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“I took a little walk outside for a while. I was surprised that I wasn't feeling what I thought people were supposed… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great… — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image
Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“I noticed that the [drawing] teacher didn't tell people much... Instead, he tried to inspire us to experiment with new approaches. I… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“I suddenly remembered that Murray Gell-Mann and I were supposed to give talks at that conference on the present situation of high-energy… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“If you want to win this argument with Dad, look in chapter two of the first book of the Feynman Lectures on… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight," he would say. “I saw a car with the license plate ARW… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image