I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
RICHARD FEYNMANI believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
RICHARD FEYNMANNature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
RICHARD FEYNMANOf course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
RICHARD FEYNMANWe are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
RICHARD FEYNMANI think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
RICHARD FEYNMANQuantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
RICHARD FEYNMANI 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 knowledge is so fragile!
RICHARD FEYNMANI a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhysics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
RICHARD FEYNMANA philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!
RICHARD FEYNMANIf you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
RICHARD FEYNMANBut there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
RICHARD FEYNMANYou have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
RICHARD FEYNMANThere are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
RICHARD FEYNMANPeople often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way–in such a way that often nobody believes me!
RICHARD FEYNMANIf I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMAN