“Philosophers have said before that one of the fundamental requisites of science is that whenever you set up the same conditions, the… — 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… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be… — 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've always been rather very one-sided about the science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to… — 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
We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.” — 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
