Richard P. Feynman Quotes - Page 2

If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that particular question by finding out more about the character of nature. But my interest in science is to simply find out about the world.

Odiaría morir dos veces, sería tan aburrido!.

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.

You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons," they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron.

So I started to think: "How can that happen?"... So the guy says, "What are you doing? You come fix the radio, but you're only walking back and forth!" I say, "I'm thinking!

The trouble with playing a trick on a highly intelligent man like Mr. Teller is that the time it takes him to figure out from the moment that he sees there is something wrong till he understands exactly what happened is too damn small to give you any pleasure!

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me.

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.

I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.

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

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is ... If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

I learned from her that every woman is worried
about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.

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

…the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

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!