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
Some people think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. — 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
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
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more… — 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
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that… — 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
