What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We're always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don't understand the conclusions. After… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can… — 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
I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know. — 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
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 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
To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency.… — 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