Richard P. Feynman Quotes - Page 10

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• The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the
  sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ideas, Principles, Fundamentals

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• 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

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• Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Yesterday, Brain, Today

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• 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

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• This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Important, Mathematics

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• I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use my work. I don't need anything else. I don't think there's any sense to anything else.... I've already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things. The honors are unreal to me. I don't believe in honors... I can't stand it, it hurts me.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Hurt, Real, Believe

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• Everything is made of atoms.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Atoms, Made

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat”, p.67, Basic Books

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• All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Distance, Moving, Knowledge

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics". Physics textbook by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands, volume I; lecture 1, "Atoms in Motion"; section 1-2, "Matter is made of atoms"; p. 1-2, 1964.

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• While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Way, Describing

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.10, Princeton University Press

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• There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists who experiment, imagine, deduce, and guess.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Law, Imagine, Physicist

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

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• To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Skills, Luck

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• If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Discovery, Views, Somewhere Else

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• To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ideas, Definitions, Tests

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• I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mistake, Mean, Fool

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• The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Book, Quantum, Chapters

  "The New Quantum Universe". Book by Anthony J. G. Hey, ‎Tony Hey, ‎Patrick Walters, 1987.

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• I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.

  Richard P. Feynman

  I Can

  Richard P. Feynman (2018). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.76, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What I can't create I don't understand

  Richard P. Feynman

  Computer Programming, Programming Languages, Computer Language

  Quoted in James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992)

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• The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Attitude, Humility, Pride

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• 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... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! 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 P. Feynman

  Writing, Wine, Glasses

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume I; lecture 3: "The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, 1964.

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• It is odd, but 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 P. Feynman

  Science, Play, Theoretical Physics

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.102, Princeton University Press

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• The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Creating, Problem, Something New

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter”, p.679, Basic Books

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• I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Hate, Science, I Hate

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• Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

  Richard P. Feynman

  World, Worthwhile, Variety

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.174, Princeton University Press

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• There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Flower, Interesting, Add

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.54, Princeton University Press

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• This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. It becomes a habit of thought. Once acquired, we cannot retreat from it anymore.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Attitude, Mind, Religion

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.286, Princeton University Press

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