Richard Feynman Quotes

Biography: Richard Feynman is renowned for his contributions to quantum mechanics... more Biography: Richard Feynman is renowned for his contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He developed the Feynman diagrams to visualize interactions between particles. Feynman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He was also known for his work on the Manhattan Project and his popular science books. less

"Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves""The ultimate test of your knowledge is your capacity to convey it to another""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 plants, and different conditions, and different stars should all exist for the sake of a single one of us. It seems much more reasonable that it’s not, that the universe is simply indifferent""Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry""I’d rather have a lot of questions than a lot of answers""The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life""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""The idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another""To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell""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""Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible""I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring""If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics""There is a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something""For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled""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 which might be wrong""I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong""Fall in love with some activity and do it Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter""The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion""Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax"

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