Bedrock Quote by 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…

— 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…

— Philip Warren Anderson

“You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.” —Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate in physics”

— Thomas Dubay

“Richard Feynman hailed “distrust of experts” as a cornerstone of science,”

— Max Tegmark

For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must…

— James Gleick

“A great physicist taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published many important books and papers. Often he had an idea in the…

— Annie Dillard

“Dick Feynman was a genius of visualization (he was also no slouch with equations): he made a mental picture of anything he was working…

— Leonard Susskind

“It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging…

— Douglas Adams

“At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself up-to-date, in layman's terms, with physics generally.…

— Ian McEwan

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

— Matthew Arnold

“He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had…

— Carl Sagan

“He had made a discovery of the first magnitude. It opened up an entirely new approach to physics, which led to statistical mechanics, to…

— Basil Mahon