140 quotes
I don't know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1999)
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988)
Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.
statement (1965)
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough!
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Rogers Commission Report (1986)
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
The Value of Science (1955)
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988)
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.
Why are the theories of physics so similar in their structure?
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985)
It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.
The Character of Physical Law (1965)
You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.
The Character of Physical Law (1965)
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.
The Character of Physical Law (1965)
I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
The Character of Physical Law (1965)
We've learned from experience that the truth will out.
The answer is simple: because we can solve them!
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
We are not to tell Nature what she's gotta be!
It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge what energy is. We do not have a picture that energy comes in little blobs of a definite amount. It is not that way.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)