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Richard Feynman - From the Activity category:
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. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Ambition category:
Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Beauty category:
An artist friend holds up a flower and says, 'Look how beautiful it is,' and I agree. Then he says, 'I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist will take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing'... Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is... I see much more about the flower than he sees... beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes... It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Commitment category:
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Communication category:
We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Deception category:
You can fool just about anyone, but the easiest one to fool is yourself. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Difficulty category:
When things are going well, something will go wrong. / When things just can't get any worse, they will. / Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Doubt category:
There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Drunkenness category:
If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it. So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure; drink it and forget it all! (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Education category:
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Ego category:
I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Expectation category:
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. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Humanity category:
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Humility category:
The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Humility category:
The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Humour category:
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Idealism category:
Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naive ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Imagination category:
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Interest category:
Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Knowledge category:
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Life category:
-last words as quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick, 1992...
I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Mysteries category:
It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent? (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Nature category:
If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Pattern category:
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. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Problems category:
No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Questions category:
Do not keep saying to yourself... 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Quotations category:
The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Reality category:
The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.' (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Religion category:
God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Rules category:
The exception tests the rule. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Seeing category:
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? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel, my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Technology category:
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Truth category:
People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me! (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Understanding category:
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Understanding category:
What I cannot create, I do not understand. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Universe category:
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Unknowns category:
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 which might be wrong. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Words category:
If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend. (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman - From the Work category:
Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. (Richard Feynman)
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