Laws of physics Quote by Richard P. Feynman

“Philosophers have said before that one of the fundamental requisites of science is that whenever you set up the same conditions, the same thing…

— Richard P. Feynman

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous…

— Richard P. Feynman

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic…

— Richard P. Feynman

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

— Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

— Richard P. Feynman

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

— Richard P. Feynman

“There was a Princess Somebody of Denmark sitting at a table with a number of people around her, and I saw an empty chair…

— Richard P. Feynman

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

— Richard P. Feynman

“There's a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”

— Richard P. Feynman

The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.

— Richard P. Feynman

You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

— Richard P. Feynman

One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to…

— Richard P. Feynman