I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMANI’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMANYou see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
RICHARD FEYNMANTo every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
RICHARD FEYNMANIf I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMANI think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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 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 FEYNMANPhysics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
RICHARD FEYNMANLearn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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 FEYNMANWhat Do You Care What Other People Think?
RICHARD FEYNMANScientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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 FEYNMANYou have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
RICHARD FEYNMANPhysics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
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 FEYNMAN