The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works Of Richard P. Feynman Quotes
"Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines."
"For though the poet's matter nature be, His art does give the fashion; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat."
"Fate gave me the tremendous luck to have Feynman as a mentor."
"Nature was proud of his designs, and joyed to wear the dressing of his lines."
"I can say as Jonson said, 'I did love this man this side idolatry as much as any.'"
"The most important help that Shakespeare gave was to act one of the leading roles in Jonson’s first play."
"I knew at once that I had entered another world."
"He was struggling, more intensely than I had ever seen anyone struggle, to understand the workings of nature."
"I had been doing some calculations and gotten some results. The calculations were so elaborate it was very difficult."
"One of the most promising hypotheses in all of biology is that everything the animals do or that living creatures do can be understood in terms of what atoms can do."
"It is one of the most remarkable things that in all of the biological sciences there is no clue as to the necessity of death."
"The purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more."
"Science creates a power through its knowledge, a power to do things."
"The question of applying the science or not is essentially the problem of organizing the applications in a way that doesn’t do too much harm and does as much good as possible."
"It's not right to pick only what you like, but to take all of the evidence."
"Authority may be a hint as to what the truth is, but is not the source of information."
"Disinterest here means that they are not reported in such a way as to try to influence the reader into an idea that's different than what the evidence indicates."
"The discovery was finally made of a way to keep it sort of in line so that scientists can make a little progress in some direction rather than to go around in circles."
"The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think."
"Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science."
"Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty; some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain."
"The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."
"To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell."
"What we ought to be able to do seems gigantic compared with our confused accomplishments."
"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems."
"It is our responsibility to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."
"I stand at the seashore, alone, and start to think. There are the rushing waves... mountains of molecules, each stupidly minding its own business... yet forming white surf in unison."
"It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty–a kind of leaning over backwards."
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself–and you are the easiest person to fool."
"When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory."
"Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them."
"I would like to add something that’s not essential to the scientist, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you’re talking as a scientist."
"We’ve learned from experience that the truth will out."
"It is interesting, therefore, to bring it out now and speak of it explicitly."
"If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it."
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
"I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, that you ought to do when acting as a scientist."
"It is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions."
"It is necessary to accept this idea, not only for science, but also for other things."
"Nothing is certain or proved beyond all doubt."
"It is of great value to acknowledge ignorance."
"The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual–the humility of the spirit."
"The adventure into the unknown, an unknown which must be recognized as being unknown in order to be explored."
"It's the curiosity of man that makes him build telescopes."
"What I mean is the kind of personal God, characteristic of the Western religions, to whom you pray and who has something to do with creating the universe and guiding you in morals."
"I do not believe a real scientist can ever believe in the same way again."
"Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation."
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
"It is impossible to accurately predict one’s own performance."
"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."