Feynman Quotes

9 quotes by 8 authors

• For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match… — James Gleick
• Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems… — Gian-Carlo Rota
• Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not… — Philip Warren Anderson
• Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana… — Richard P. Feynman
• [Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it. — Leonard Susskind
• "Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him… — James Gleick
• Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that… — Leon M. Lederman
• My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the… — Daniel Dennett
• Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand… — Bill Bryson

Who Wrote These Feynman Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 9 Feynman Quotes as follows:

• 2 Feynman Quotes by James Gleick
• 1 Feynman Quote by Bill Bryson
• 1 Feynman Quote by Gian-Carlo Rota
• 1 Feynman Quote by Philip Warren Anderson
• 1 Feynman Quote by Richard P. Feynman
• 1 Feynman Quote by Leonard Susskind
• 1 Feynman Quote by Leon M. Lederman
• 1 Feynman Quote by Daniel Dennett