Richard Feynman Quotes
Enjoy the top 191 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Richard Feynman.

“What do I advise? Forget it all. Dont be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!
If you have any talent,or any occupation that delights you,do it, and do it to the hilt”
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
— Richard Feynman
“I ... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
— Richard Feynman
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
— Richard Feynman
“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
— Richard Feynman
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
— Richard Feynman
“Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.”
— Richard Feynman
— Richard Feynman
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
— Richard Feynman
“Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.”
— Richard Feynman
— Richard Feynman
— Richard Feynman
“You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.”
— Richard Feynman
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
— Richard Feynman
There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
— Richard Feynman
I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
— Richard Feynman
How much do you value life?" "Sixty-four.
— Richard Feynman
There is a physical problem that is common to many fields, that is very old, and that has not been solved. It is not the problem of finding new fundamental particles, but something left over from a long time ago-over a hundred years. Nobody in physics has really been able to analyze it mathematically satisfactorily in spite of its importance to the sister sciences. It is the analysis of circulating or turbulent fluids.
— Richard Feynman
— Richard Feynman
To our eyes, our crude eyes, nothing is changing, but if we could see it a billion times magnified, we would see that from its own point of view it is always changing: molecules are leaving the surface, molecules are coming back.
— Richard Feynman
How do we know that there are atoms? By one of the tricks mentioned earlier: we make the hypothesis that there are atoms, and one after the other results come out the way we predict, as they ought to if things are made of atoms. There is also somewhat more direct evidence, a good example of which is the following: The
— Richard Feynman
— Richard Feynman
“The price of gaining such an accurate theory has been the erosion of our common sense.”
— Richard Feynman
— Richard Feynman
If a piece of steel or a piece of salt, consisting of atoms one next to the other, can have such interesting properties; if water-which is nothing but these little blobs, mile upon mile of the same thing over the earth-can form waves and foam, and make rushing noises and strange patterns as it runs over cement; 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? If
— Richard Feynman
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