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Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all. Richard P. Feynman. Falling In Love, Thinking, Interesting. 222 Copy quote. Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. Richard P. Feynman. Philosophy, Science, Technology. 88 Copy quote.
- “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
- “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” ― Richard Feynmann.
- “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
- “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.” ― Richard P. Feynman.
- The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
- It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
- Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
- The Value of Science
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics
- The Character of Physical Law
- Quantum View of Reality
- QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- Rogers Commission Report
- What Do You Care What Other People think?
- No Ordinary Genius
- The Meaning of It All
"The Value of Science," public address at the National Academy of Sciences (Autumn 1955); published in What Do You Care What Other People Think (1988); republished in The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman(1999) edited by Jeffrey Robbins I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as ...
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of app...
Transcript of the Messenger Lectures at Cornell University, presented in November 1964. 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 I also do theoretical physics. A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand hi...
A Workshop at Esalen Institute with Richard Feynman assisted by Ralph Leighton, Faustin Bray, and Brian Wallace (November, 1983) Big Sur, CA. The idea of quantum mechanics that I want to describe now is a positive thing. It's a way that we actually use to make calculations and understand nature. Excuse me, to make calculations! We really don't unde...
People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about what we know pretty well. They a...
A collection of reminiscences from taped interviews with friend Ralph Leighton (the son of Feynman's collaborator Robert Leighton). ISBN 0393316041There were certain things I didn't like, such as tipping. I thought we should be paid more, and not have to have any tips. But when I proposed that to the boss, I got nothing but laughter. She told...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!The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.Report of the PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident (6 June 1986) Appendix F - Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle • Full Report It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in...
I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an ar...
No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman (1994) edited by Christopher Sykes. Transcripts and rearrangements of BBC TV Horizondocumentaries "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981), "The Quest for Tannu Tuva" (1988), and "No Ordinary Genius" (1993). The most important thing I found out from [my father] is that if you asked any question...
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist (1999) ISBN 0738201669 A collection of three guest lectures presented in April 1963 at the University of Washington, Seattle. The third aspect of my subject is that of science as a method of finding things out. This method is based on the principle that observation is the judge of whether somet...
- “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.” The best Feynman quote of all (from a 1974 address), and the best advice to scientists and anybody else who seeks the truth about the world.
- “I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” As Feynman said in The Character of Physical Law, many people understand other sophisticated physical theories, including Einstein’s relativity.
- “Nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical.” Feynman wasn’t the first to consider the idea of a quantum computer, but his words (from a 1981 talk, published in 1982) inspired some physicists to take the idea seriously.
- “There’s plenty of room at the bottom.” This simple statement was the title of a talk Feynman delivered in 1959, widely regarded today as the original inspiration for the origin of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
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