“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve
are laughter and human compassion.”
― Richard P. Feynman
Great Minds: Richard Feynman - The Uncertainty Of Knowledge
Mar 4, 2010
“Nobody 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 P. Feynman
On religion
May 10, 2015
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
― Richard P. Feynman
Richard Feynman. Why.
Apr 2, 2012
“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.” ― Richard P. Feynman
The best teacher I never had
Jan 27, 2016
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most
undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard P. Feynman
“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible,
because only in that way can we find progress.”
Feynman: Knowing versus Understanding
May 17, 2012
“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible,
because only in that way can we find progress.”
― Richard P. Feynman
Richard Feynman - The World from another point of view
May 28, 2015
“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
― Richard P. Feynman
On teaching
May 10, 2015
“Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.”
― Richard P. Feynman
Richard Feynman on Pseudoscience
Apr 17, 2016
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself
and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Richard P. Feynman
Feynman - I Don't Like Honors [longer version]
Dec 2, 2006
“I would rather have questions that can't be answered
than answers that can't be questioned.”
― Richard P. Feynman
Richard Feynman talks about Algebra
Jan 22, 2014
“So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.” ― Richard P. Feynman Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Feynman :: Rules of Chess
Feb 21, 2007
Richard Feynman talks about light
Nov 2, 2007
Richard Feynman Lecture - Los Alamos From Below
Jul 12, 2016
The complete FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman
Nov 1, 2018
“I learned very early the difference between knowing
the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman
CNN, Feynman and the Challenger disaster
May 19, 2015
“You
have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to
accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's
their mistake, not my failing.” ― Richard
P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr.
Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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“Physics
is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
― Richard
P. Feynman
---
“I have
a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree
with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it
is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how
beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a
dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty
that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I
may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the
beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he
sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which
also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one
centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure,
also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to
attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see
the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the
lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the
science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a
flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.” ― Richard
P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best
Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
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“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody 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. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.” ― Richard P. Feynman
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“I
think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which
might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different
degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of
anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether
it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I
don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious
universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can
tell.” ― Richard
P. Feynman
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“I'm
smart enough to know that I'm dumb.” ― Richard
Feynman
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“I
think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which
might be wrong.”― Richard
P. Feynman
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“If you
thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
― Richard
P. Feynman
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“You
can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're
finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's
look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very
early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing
something.” ― Richard
P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People
Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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“A poet
once said, 'The whole universe is in a glass of wine.' We will probably never
know in what sense he meant it, for poets do not write to be understood. But it
is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire
universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates
depending on the wind and weather, the reflection in the glass; and our
imagination adds atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth's rocks, and
in its composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and the evolution
of stars. What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to
be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products.
There in wine is found the great generalization; all life is fermentation.
Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis
Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its
existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some
convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts -- physics,
biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on -- remember that nature does
not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what
it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure; drink it and forget it all!”
― Richard
P. Feynman
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“All
the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is
just another way of saying that you can't.” ― Richard
P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures
of a Curious Character
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“What I
am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third
or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn
away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't
understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.” ― Richard
P. Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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“Poets
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? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this
carousel my little eye can catch one - million - year - old light. A vast
pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the
why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more
marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the
poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of
Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane
and ammonia must be silent?” ― Richard
Feynman
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“It
doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous
range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different
planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this
complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings
struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is
too big for the drama.” ― Richard
P. Feynman
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“There
are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a
hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them
astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.” ― Richard
Feynman
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“I
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
Feynman
