If you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid - not only what you think… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Only realistic flight schedules should be proposed, schedules that have a reasonable chance of being met. If in this way the government… — 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
Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!' — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system… — 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
So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of… — 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