You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth. — 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
That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But… — 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
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person. — 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
“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
If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“I believe, therefore, that although it is not the case today, that there may some day come a time, I should hope,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?" No, I'm not. I'm just looking to find out more about the world… — 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
