Richard P. Feynman Quotes
While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.
We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!
The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.
Some people think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy.
If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
I 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.
I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!'
Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.
See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.
You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.