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Light is something like raindrops each little lump of light is called a photon and if the light is all one color, all the "raindrops" are the same.

Richard P. Feynman

Light, Color, Raindrops

Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.14, Princeton University Press

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Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

Richard P. Feynman

Yesterday, Brain, Today

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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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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.

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Hurt, Real, Believe

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

Richard P. Feynman

Hate, Science, I Hate

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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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In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.

Richard P. Feynman

Art, Thinking, One Direction

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(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did

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Book, Asking, Letters

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Born: May 11, 1918
Died: February 15, 1988
Occupation: Physicist
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