[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. — RICHARD FEYNMAN” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Richard Feynman hailed “distrust of experts” as a cornerstone of science,” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“I don’t mind not knowing. It doesn’t scare me. —RICHARD FEYNMAN” — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.” —Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate in physics” — Thomas Dubay 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
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Richard Feynman, Rogers Commission Report (1986)” — Martin Kleppmann 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
“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
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
“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way—by rote or something.… — Seth Godin 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
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
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
"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 now know that there is a happy abundance of science writers who pen the most lucid and thrilling prose—Timothy Ferris, Richard… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns' by Robert Jungk and 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' by Richard Feynman were both books my father… — Baiju Bhatt Copy Share Image
[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Richard P Feynman was fascinated by the Moon; he tried in earnest to see the Moon. But science could only see the… — Avijeet Das 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
“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
“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
“Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman explaining in an interview one of his less orthodox productivity strategies: To do real good physics work,… — Cal Newport 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
“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
“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
“[Paul Olum] was president of the University of Oregon when he heard of [Richard] Feynman’s death. He realized that the young genius… — Jame Gleick quoting Paul Olum 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
“Richard Feynman had to say this about energy in his 1961 lecture: “There is a fact, or if you wish, a law,… — Dejan Stojanovic 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
“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
“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
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
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![“"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.” quote by James Gleick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/de0/james-gleick-2623_bedrock_half-genius-and-half-buffoon-freeman-dys_2349105.jpg)
![“[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven astronauts:] The public saw with their own eyes how science is done, how a great scientist thinks with his hands, how nature gives a clear answer when a…” quote by Freeman Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1a7/freeman-dyson-1435_answers_on-richard-p-feynman-s-live-demonstratio_635893.jpg)
![“I noticed that the [drawing] teacher didn't tell people much... Instead, he tried to inspire us to experiment with new approaches. I thought of how we teach physics: We have so many techniques - so many mathematical methods - that we never stop telling the students how to do things. On the other…” quote by Richard Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/20e/richard-feynman-12444_drawing_i-noticed-that-the-drawing-teacher-didn_2437204.jpg)
![“[Paul Olum] was president of the University of Oregon when he heard of [Richard] Feynman’s death. He realized that the young genius he had met at Princeton had become a part of him, impossible to extricate. “My wife died three years ago, also of cancer,” he said. ... I think about her a lot. I…” quote by Jame Gleick quoting Paul Olum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/807/jame-gleick-quoting-paul-olum_graduate-student_paul-olum-was-president-of-the-universit_898657.jpg)
