Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
RICHARD FEYNMANLearn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
RICHARD FEYNMANPoets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
RICHARD FEYNMANI couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
RICHARD FEYNMANI think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
RICHARD FEYNMANNature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
RICHARD FEYNMANWe are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
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 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 FEYNMANPhysicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
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 FEYNMANPhysics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
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 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 FEYNMANThe first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
RICHARD FEYNMANAll mass is interaction.
RICHARD FEYNMANFor a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
RICHARD FEYNMAN