Richard P. FeynmanAn ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible! ✨ Richard P Feynman (2014). Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a C… ▶371Truth
Richard P. FeynmanI am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn someth… ▶351DeathHopeHumanity
Richard P. FeynmanYou can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction. ✨ Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Book by James Gleick, 1992.351LifeReading
Richard P. FeynmanTell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough! ✨ No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman. Book by Chri… ▶373LoveReading
Richard P. FeynmanSo 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 t… ▶351Humor
Richard P. FeynmanDuring the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas -… ▶352Thought
Richard P. Feynman'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes its multitude of changes, this number d… ▶341PoliticsTime
Richard P. FeynmanOf course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you. ✨ Richard P. Feynman (2015). The Quotable Feynman, p.… ▶352Life
Richard P. FeynmanScience is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.352Sadness
Richard P. FeynmanIt is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that … ▶352Life
Richard P. FeynmanWe absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. Pe… ▶374HumanityThoughtTruth
Richard P. FeynmanFor a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. ✨ Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Acci… ▶375Truth
Richard P. FeynmanI learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.375Love
Richard P. Feynman[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.375Hope
Richard P. FeynmanI love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.353Love
Richard P. FeynmanFrom a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judg… ▶375HumanityPolitics
Richard P. FeynmanFirst 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 gues… ▶376HumorLifePolitics
Richard P. FeynmanIt 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 th… ▶376HumanityTime
Richard P. FeynmanI believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. ✨ Richard P. Feynman (2015). The Quotable Feynman, p.290, Princeton University … ▶365Love
Richard P. FeynmanTo decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.343Reading
Richard P. FeynmanTo not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.376Death
Richard P. FeynmanAll 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.376Time
Richard P. FeynmanBut logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea. ✨ Richard P. Feynman (2015). The Quotable Feynman, p.120, Princeton University Press355LoveThought
Richard P. FeynmanThe unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.344Thought
Richard P. FeynmanWe find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: It is very much more like… ▶311PoliticsTruth
Richard P. FeynmanThe real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out… ▶366PoliticsThought
Richard P. FeynmanWe are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsi… ▶312HopeHumanityTime
Richard P. FeynmanOur 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 … ▶334Reflection
Richard P. FeynmanFor 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 we… ▶356ReadingTimeTruth
Richard P. FeynmanOne cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.378Politics
