“Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough” — Richard Feynman Deeply Copy Share Image
“You must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.” — Richard Feynman Rethink Copy Share Image
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but thats not why we do it. — Richard Feynman Funny Copy Share Image
“But at MIT there was a rule: You have to take some humanities courses to get more “culture.” — Richard Feynman Humanities Copy Share Image
“If a law does not work even in one place where it ought to, it is just wrong.” — Richard Feynman Law Copy Share Image
“But that was my big moment: I gave a seminar in the biology department at Harvard! I always do that, get into… — Richard Feynman Biology Copy Share Image
“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so… — Richard Feynman Every man Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is ... If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.” — Richard Feynman Experiment Copy Share Image
“I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and… — Richard Feynman Education Copy Share Image
“The first person you should be careful not to fool is yourself. Because you are the easiest person to fool".” — Richard Feynman First person Copy Share Image
“All of our ideas in physics require a certain amount of common sense in their application; they are not purely mathematical or… — Richard Feynman Common sense Copy Share Image
“Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an… — Richard Feynman Constants-of-nature Copy Share Image
“Although my mother didn't know anything about science, she had a great influence on me as well. In particular, she had a… — Richard Feynman Compassion Copy Share Image
“If you take 1 divided by 243 you get .004115226337…It’s quite cute: It goes a little cockeyed after 559 when you’re carrying… — Richard Feynman Quite Cute Copy Share Image
“The guy says, “Buddy, the housing situation in Ithaca is tough. In fact, it’s so tough that, believe it or not, a… — Richard Feynman Last night Copy Share Image
“How would I say in Japanese, ‘I solve the Dirac Equation’?” They said such-and-so. “OK. Now I want to say, ‘Would you… — Richard Feynman Theory Copy Share Image
“From a long view of the history of mankind-seen from, say, ten thousand years from now-there can be little doubt that the… — Richard Feynman History Copy Share Image
“So when I went to see my wife in Albuquerque that day, she said, “Well, where’s all the stuff?” I said, “What… — Richard Feynman Hot dogs Copy Share Image
“The trouble with playing a trick on a highly intelligent man like Mr. Teller is that the time it takes him to… — Richard Feynman Highly intelligent Copy Share Image
“But one man, I remember, Bob Wilson, was just sitting there moping. I said, “What are you moping about?” He said, “It’s… — Richard Feynman Moping Said Copy Share Image
“If a Martian (who, we'll imagine, never dies except by accident) came to Earth and saw this peculiar race of creatures -… — Richard Feynman Death Copy Share Image
“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the… — Richard Feynman Astronomy Copy Share Image
“My father had the spirit and integrity of a scientist, but he was a salesman. I remember asking him the question "How… — Richard Feynman Better way Copy Share Image
“I started to walk into the bar, and I suddenly thought to myself, “Wait a minute! It’s the middle of the afternoon.… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“The taxi driver felt that it was a good observation, and said he was planning to build for the future, too: he… — Richard Feynman Bad idea Copy Share Image
“A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feynman Lectures on Physics),… — Richard Feynman Action-over-thought Copy Share Image
“I took a little walk outside for a while. I was surprised that I wasn't feeling what I thought people were supposed… — Richard Feynman Bad luck Copy Share Image
“I wrote a letter to her and proposed. Somebody who’s wise could have told me that was dangerous: When you’re away and… — Richard Feynman Feeling lonely Copy Share Image
“But wait,” he said. “Let’s suppose it returns by advanced waves—reactions backward in time—so it comes back at the right time. We… — Richard Feynman Right time Copy Share Image
“Von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don’t have to be responsible for the world that you’re in. So I… — Richard Feynman Happy man Copy Share Image
“It was thought in the Middle Ages that people simply make many observations, and the observations themselves suggest the laws. But it… — Richard Feynman Middle ages Copy Share Image
“Stands at the sea, wonders at wondering: I a universe of atoms an atom in the universe” — Richard Feynman Atoms Copy Share Image
“Science is a long history of learning how not to fool ourselves.” — Richard Feynman History Copy Share Image
“So I got a great reputation for doing integrals, only because my box of tools was different from everybody else’s, and they… — Richard Feynman Integrals Box Copy Share Image
“I believe there's nothing in hallucinations that has anything to do with anything external to the internal psychological state of the person… — Richard Feynman Hallucination Copy Share Image
“Many races as well as cultural influences of men of all kinds have mixed into any man. To select, for approbation the… — Richard Feynman Heredity Copy Share Image
“That was for me: I can’t understand anything in general unless I’m carrying along in my mind a specific example and watching… — Richard Feynman Psychology Copy Share Image
