If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them? — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire. — 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
Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us… — 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
In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple… Somebody nominated me for president… — 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
“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
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
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
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share
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
“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
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
“There's a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share
The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share
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
Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
