Quotes from Richard P. Feynman

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'.

We're always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don't understand the conclusions. After we've checked them enough, we're okay.

I want to marry Arline because I love her - which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

We are not to tell nature what she's gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.

Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.

I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.