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Quotes from Richard Feynman

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
~ Richard Feynman
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
~ Richard Feynman
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.
~ Richard 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.
~ Richard Feynman
I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me.
~ Richard Feynman
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
~ Richard Feynman
You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
~ Richard Feynman
Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.
~ Richard Feynman
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
~ Richard Feynman
Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts
~ Richard Feynman
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but thats not why we do it.
~ Richard Feynman