“You must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.” — Richard Feynman 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
“But at MIT there was a rule: You have to take some humanities courses to get more “culture.” — Richard Feynman Humanities 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
“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
“It doesn't make a difference how beautiful your guess is. It doesn't make a difference how smart you are, who made the… — Richard Feynman Science Copy Share Image
“The lay reader only wanted to have the illusion of understanding and to catch a few buzzwords to throw around at cocktail… — Richard Feynman Books Copy Share Image
“Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are… — Richard Feynman Principle Copy Share Image
“He was beholden to no one, and would never take on trust what others might maintain to be true without himself coming… — Richard Feynman Beholden 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
“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so… — Richard Feynman 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 Copy Share Image
“The next question was — what makes planets go around the sun? At the time of Kepler some people answered this problem… — Richard Feynman Gravity 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
“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
“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 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 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
“There are very remarkable mysteries about the fact that we’re able to do so many more things than apparently animals can do,… — Richard Feynman Animals Copy Share Image
“It’s really quite easy,” he said. “I’m standing around a table, when some guy says, ‘It’s comin’ out nine! It’s gotta be… — Richard Feynman 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“I suddenly remembered that Murray Gell-Mann and I were supposed to give talks at that conference on the present situation of high-energy… — Richard Feynman Black humor Copy Share Image
“i have a friend who’s an artist and he’s sometimes taken a view which i don’t agree with very well. he’ll hold up… — Richard Feynman Art Copy Share Image
“I noticed that the [drawing] teacher didn't tell people much... Instead, he tried to inspire us to experiment with new approaches. I… — Richard Feynman 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
“A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feynman Lectures on Physics),… — Richard Feynman 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
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but thats not why we do it. — Richard Feynman Funny 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 Execution Copy Share Image