40+ Richard Feynman Quotes to Ignite Your Ideas!

Richard Feynman Quotes Quantum Mechanics

• "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." - Richard Feynman

• "Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain." - Richard P. Feynman

• "First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If it disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn't matter how beautiful your guess is or how smart you are or what your name is. If it disagrees with experience, it's wrong. That's all there is to it." - Richard P. Feynman

• "The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought." - Richard Feynman

• "I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb." - Richard Feynman

• "Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on." - Richard Feynman

• "We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress." - Richard Feynman

• "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

• "Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories." - Richard Feynman

• "If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize." - Richard Feynman

Richard P Feynman Quotes

• "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned." - Richard P. Feynman

• "Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself." - Richard P. Feynman

• "Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." - Richard P. Feynman

• "It 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 P. Feynman

• "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

• "If you can't explain something to a first-year student, then you haven't really understood ." - Richard P. Feynman

• "If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part." - Richard P. Feynman

• "Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true." - Richard P. Feynman

• "We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know." - Richard P. Feynman

• "Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible." - Richard P. Feynman

• "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard Feynman

• "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

• "What I cannot create, I do not understand." - Richard Feynman

• "Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - Richard Feynman

• "Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation." - Richard Feynman

• "I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy." - Richard Feynman

• "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?" - Richard Feynman

• "I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there." - Richard Feynman

• "Philosophers 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 Feynman

• "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman Quotes on the Beauty of Nature

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• "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." - Richard Feynman

• "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 Feynman

• "I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something." - Richard Feynman

• "The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion." - Richard Feynman

• "The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability." - Richard Feynman

• "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 Feynman

• "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." - Richard Feynman

• "See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man." - Richard Feynman

• "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

• "As usual, nature’s imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep." - Richard Feynman

• "The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth." - Richard Feynman

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