For 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 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 FEYNMANWhy nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
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 FEYNMANEverything is made of atoms.
RICHARD FEYNMANScience is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhilosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMANI’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhysics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
RICHARD FEYNMANYou have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
RICHARD FEYNMANIf you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.
RICHARD FEYNMANYou can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
RICHARD FEYNMANI learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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 can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMANNature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
RICHARD FEYNMANEverything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
RICHARD FEYNMAN