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• The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Beautiful, Father, Discovery

  "No Ordinary Genius". Book by Christopher Sykes, p. 28, 1994.

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• If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Honesty, Intelligence, Important

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.130, Princeton University Press

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• Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by our present picture of the universe? The value of science remains unsung by singers... This is not yet a scientific age.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Writing, Artist, Age

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• I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Trying

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.69, Princeton University Press

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• Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Imagination

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.128, Princeton University Press

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• It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Tables, Facts, Electrons

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

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• You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Vices, Made, Vice Versa

  "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman". Book by James Gleick, 1992.

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• We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Swimming, Men, Past

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."

  Richard P. Feynman

  Two, Numbers, Three

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.113, Princeton University Press

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• When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.

  Richard P. Feynman

  People, Stuff, Realizing

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• If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Years, Complaining, Matter

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.315, Princeton University Press

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• When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out [how] to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Stupid, Thinking, Two

  YouTube Chanel "sdfhsfh"/ "Richard Feynman explains the feeling of confusion", www.youtube.com. November 3, 2007.

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• If you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid - not only what you think is right about it; other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked -to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Might, Causes

  "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character". Book by Ralph Leighton and Richard R. Feynman, 1985.

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• You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Teacher, Children, Simple

  Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.252, Hachette UK

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• I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Be Good

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Distance, Simple, Finals

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• 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

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• It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, People

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, Chapter 7, 'Seeking New Laws,' p. 165-166, 1965.

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• But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inevitability Of Death, Biology, Found

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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• I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Death, Knowledge, Science

  "Horizon (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out)". Documentary (November 23, 1981), later published in "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman" edited by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.

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• There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Play, Disease, Serious

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.241, Princeton University Press

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• I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Play, Worry, Want

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• [B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Needs, Poverty, Satisfied

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• [When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through the obtaining of real knowledge that] he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Thinking, Study

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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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