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If I could explain it to the ...

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

You say you are a nameless ma...

You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the na?ve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

A great deal more is known th...

A great deal more is known than has been proved.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

When you're thinking about so...

When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out [how] to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

We have found it of paramount...

We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

A philosopher once said, 'It ...

A 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 Feynman 390 quotes

The fundamental principle of ...

The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

Science is a way to teach how...

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

An ordinary fool isn't a fake...

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

If there is something very sl...

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

Science is a process for lear...

Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

If you know that you are not ...

If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

Our imagination is stretched ...

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

When you get as old as I am, ...

When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

Don't think about what you wa...

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 Feynman 390 quotes

One of the ways of stopping s...

One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

There was a time when the new...

There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time ... On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

Why make yourself miserable s...

Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

The only way to have real suc...

The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory , you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty .

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

It is surprising that people ...

It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult.

Richard Feynman 390 quotes

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