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List of Richard P. Feynman Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 363 inspiring quotes by Richard P. Feynman.

About Richard P. Feynman

  • Born: May 11, 1918
  • Died: February 15, 1988
  • Occupation: Physicist
    • I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like god because they have been figured out.
    Thinking Law Atheism
    From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. the american civil war will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade.
    War Discovery Views
    Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. when you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away...the next scheme, the new discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way.
    Thinking Discovery Law
    It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... i speak of the e and b fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that i can see them ... [but] i cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.
    Angel Imagination Degrees
    People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail.
    Philosophical People Intuition
    When a caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist michael turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, feynmann snapped, "why do you want to know his bias? form your own bias!"
    Learning Dark Want
    There is one simplification at least. electrons behave ... in exactly the same way as photons; they are both screwy, but in exactly in the same way.
    Way Behave Electrons
    We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. it is like the discovery of america-you only discover it once. the age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. it is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.
    Nature Science Discovery
    What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the material with which we work, by nature herself. we look, and we see what we find, and we cannot say ahead of time successfully what it is going to look like. ... it is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.
    Math Science Mind
    No one really understands quantum mechanics.
    Mechanic Quantum Quantum Mechanics
    It is to be emphasized that no matter how many [amplitude] arrows we draw, add, or multiply, our objective is to calculate a single final arrow for the event . mistakes are often made by physics students at first because they do not keep this important point in mind. they work for so long analyzing events involving a single photon that they begin to think that the arrow is somehow associated with the photon [rather than with the event].
    Mistake Thinking Arrows
    Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the department of mathematics they put it in books.
    Book Reason Mathematics
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