Richard Feynman
Biography
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. - Wikipedia
Quotes from Richard Feynman
"The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion."
1173
"Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter."
1174
"Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough."
1175
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."
1176
"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."
1177
"Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do."
1178
"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish."
1179
"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."
1180
"I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned."
1181
"I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."
1182
"Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."
1183
"I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong."
1184
"We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress."
1185
"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!"
1186
"See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."
1187
"As usual, nature’s imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep."
1188
"I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb."
1189
"I thought one should have the attitude of ‘What do you care what other people think!’."
1190
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
1191
"I believe that a scientist looking at non-scientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."
1192
"If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part."
1193
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."
1194
"The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth."
1195
"All the time you’re saying to yourself, ‘I could do that, but I won’t’, — which is just another way of saying that you can’t."
1196
"I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing."
1197