“Mathematics is not a science from our point of view, in the sense that it is not a natural science. The test… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“THE QUESTION IS, OF COURSE, IS IT GOING TO BE POSSIBLE TO AMALGAMATE EVERYTHING, AND MERELY DISCOVER THAT THIS WORLD REPRESENTS DIFFERENT… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“[Doubt] is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“I believe that we must attack these things in which we do not believe. Not attack by the method of cutting off… — 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
“If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We've learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes… — 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
Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.' — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. — 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
Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery… — 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
“You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you… — 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… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without… — 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
If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of… — 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
This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the… — 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
“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
![“If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.” quote by Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fd0/richard-p-feynman-495_behave_if-i-say-electrons-behave-like-particles_1495136.jpg)
![“[Doubt] is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the men who made the democracy that we live under. The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed…” quote by Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/71f/richard-p-feynman-495_age-of-reason_doubt-is-not-a-new-idea-this-is-the-idea_1745125.jpg)
![“You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, [an integrity] that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our…” quote by Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/754/richard-p-feynman-495_acting_you-should-not-fool-the-laymen-when-you_1898244.jpg)
