Students Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

“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

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

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

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

— Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

— Richard P. Feynman

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

“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

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

“There's a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”

— Richard P. Feynman

The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.

— Richard P. Feynman

You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

— Richard P. Feynman

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

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

— Richard P. Feynman

A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that,…

— Richard P. Feynman

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy.…

— Richard P. Feynman