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
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
This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Once you start doubting, just like you’re supposed to doubt, you ask me if the science is true. You say no, we… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“In general, we look for a new law by the following process: First we guess it; then we compute the consequences of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“CURIOSITY DEMANDS THAT WE ASK QUESTIONS, THAT WE TRY TO PUT THINGS TOGETHER AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND THIS MULTITUDE OF ASPECTS AS… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.” — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
[When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through… — 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
It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which… — 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
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up… — 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
“[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
Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing… — 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
“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