Richard P. Feynman Quotes

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• The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.
• The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.
• There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of…
• What did you ASK at school today?
• To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.
• Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
• The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until…
• I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.
• 'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes its multitude of…
• All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling…
• The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed…
• But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.
• If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.
• It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a…
• It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if…
• We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only…
• We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks,…
• Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard…
• During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method…
• Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.

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