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Other Quotes by Richard P. Feynman
- 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…
- It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.
- One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do…
- One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most…
- I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use…
- I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only…
- When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people…
- Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so…
- In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather…
- We've learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right.…
- I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery,…
- The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about…
- Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world.…
- I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their…
- You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect…
- I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
- When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began…
- What Do You Care What Other People Think?
- We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers... one saying to the other:…
- We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose…
- You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not…
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