That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
RICHARD FEYNMANThat’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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 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 FEYNMANI couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
RICHARD FEYNMANPhysics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
RICHARD FEYNMANScience is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
RICHARD FEYNMANScience is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
RICHARD FEYNMANThe things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
RICHARD FEYNMANWhy nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
RICHARD FEYNMANInnovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
RICHARD FEYNMANThe individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
RICHARD FEYNMANI’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
RICHARD FEYNMANThere is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
RICHARD FEYNMANNobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
RICHARD FEYNMANFor those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
RICHARD FEYNMANHow much do you value life? Sixty-four.
RICHARD FEYNMAN