Richard P. Feynman Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Laughter, Inspiration, Compassion

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.92, Princeton University Press

• 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!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, People, Understanding

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.301, Princeton University Press

• One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Law, Understanding, Way

• This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the things, to record the details, and to hope that in the information thus obtained, may lie a clue to one or another of a possible theoretical interpretation.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Lying, Keys, Ideas

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

• Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Understanding, Religion, Atheism

• The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until suddenly I find myself momentarily alone before one new corner of nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty revealed. That was my reward.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Imagination, Understanding

  Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.32, Hachette UK

• One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Hate, Law, Knowing

• To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Beer, Math, Understanding

• The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Math, Understanding

  "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Book by Richard P. Feynman, p. 70, 1985.

• The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Understanding, Mind, Female

• ... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics. I am sorry, but this seems to be the case.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Sorry, Science, Law

• So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real reason is that the subject is enjoyable, and although we humans cut nature up in different ways, and we have different courses in different departments, such compartmentaliz ation is really artificial, and we should take our intellectual pleasures where we find them.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Cutting, Order

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, Basic Books

• People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

  Richard P. Feynman

  People, Understanding, Wish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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