The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
RICHARD FEYNMANThe things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
RICHARD FEYNMANWords can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhilosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
RICHARD FEYNMANThank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhysics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
RICHARD FEYNMANI have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
RICHARD FEYNMANIt doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMANLearn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
RICHARD FEYNMANI learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
RICHARD FEYNMANI think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMANI love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
RICHARD FEYNMANWhat Do You Care What Other People Think?
RICHARD FEYNMANThe first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
RICHARD FEYNMANWe are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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 FEYNMANIn physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
RICHARD FEYNMAN