What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them? — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability — 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
You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is impossible, by the way, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up… — 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… — 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
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
One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be… — 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
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
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
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
It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom… — 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
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
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
The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There is one simplification at least. Electrons behave ... in exactly the same way as photons; they are both screwy, but in… — 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
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me! — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before.… — 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
In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something… — 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
![“When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.” quote by Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1df/richard-p-feynman-495_big-things_when-the-problem-quantum-chromodynamics_312736.jpg)
![“If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.” quote by Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd0/richard-p-feynman-495_behave_if-i-say-electrons-behave-like-particles_1495136.png)
