Quotes from Richard Feynman

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax

You can't fool nature.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

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.

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

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.

The 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 the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

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. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

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!

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

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