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All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it. By Richard P. Feynman

If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into. By Richard P. Feynman

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. By Richard P. Feynman

There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world. By Richard P. Feynman

Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself. By Richard P. Feynman

The easiest person to fool is yourself. By Richard P. Feynman

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another. By Richard P. Feynman

I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out. By Richard P. Feynman

Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off. By Richard P. Feynman

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena. By Richard P. Feynman

We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation. By Richard P. Feynman

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

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding. By Richard P. Feynman

The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real. By Richard P. Feynman

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

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea. By Richard P. Feynman

Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad - but it does not carry instructions on how to use it. By Richard P. Feynman

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability By Richard P. Feynman

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world. By Richard P. Feynman

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions. By Richard P. Feynman

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. By Richard P. Feynman

Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem. By Richard P. Feynman

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.' By Richard P. Feynman

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things By Richard P. Feynman

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad! By Richard P. Feynman

It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss. By Richard P. Feynman

If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap. By Richard P. Feynman

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory. By Richard P. Feynman

What one fool can understand, another can. By Richard P. Feynman

It is simple, therefore it is beautiful By Richard P. Feynman

Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person. By Richard P. Feynman

Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing. By Richard P. Feynman

To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only. By Richard P. Feynman

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is By Richard P. Feynman

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire. By Richard P. Feynman

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules. By Richard P. Feynman

We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. By Richard P. Feynman

A scientist is never certain ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. By Richard P. Feynman

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket. By Richard P. Feynman

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

As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep. By Richard P. Feynman

No one really understands quantum mechanics. By Richard P. Feynman

You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. By Richard P. Feynman

I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics. By Richard P. Feynman

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics. By Richard P. Feynman

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. By Richard P. Feynman

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth. By Richard P. Feynman

I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work. By Richard P. Feynman

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong. By Richard P. Feynman

Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea. By Richard P. Feynman

Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations. By Richard P. Feynman

It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is. By Richard P. Feynman

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me! By Richard P. Feynman

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it. By Richard P. Feynman

This is not yet a scientific age. By Richard P. Feynman

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were. By Richard P. Feynman

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians. By Richard P. Feynman

I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!' By Richard P. Feynman

We are never right, we can only be sure we are wrong. By Richard P. Feynman

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories. By Richard P. Feynman

To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can. By Richard P. Feynman

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. By Richard P. Feynman

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world. By Richard P. Feynman

Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics. By Richard P. Feynman

Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it. By Richard P. Feynman

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task. By Richard P. Feynman

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method. By Richard P. Feynman

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

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. By Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. By Richard P. Feynman

Know how to solve every problem that has been solved. By Richard P. Feynman

The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual ... the humility of the spirit. By Richard P. Feynman

We've learned from experience that the truth will come out. By Richard P. Feynman

The same equations have the same solutions By Richard P. Feynman

I don't believe I can really do without teaching. By Richard P. Feynman

There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. By Richard P. Feynman

It is impossible, by the way, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense. By Richard P. Feynman

Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves By Richard P. Feynman

There's plenty of room at the bottom. By Richard P. Feynman

As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing! By Richard P. Feynman

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

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. By Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way for us to not fool ourselves. By Richard P. Feynman

Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose! By Richard P. Feynman

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. By Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. By Richard P. Feynman

If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler. By Richard P. Feynman

All we know so far is what doesn't work. By Richard P. Feynman

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists. By Richard P. Feynman

Science is uncertain. By Richard P. Feynman

The exception tests the rule. By Richard P. Feynman

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes. By Richard P. Feynman

Work hard to find something that fascinates you. By Richard P. Feynman

Science is of value because it can produce something. By Richard P. Feynman

Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself. By Richard P. Feynman

You do not know anything until you have practiced. By Richard P. Feynman

So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible. By Richard P. Feynman

As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect. By Richard P. Feynman

Don't worry about anything ... Go out and have a good time. By Richard P. Feynman

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there. By Richard P. Feynman

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

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know. By Richard P. Feynman

If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week. By Richard P. Feynman

If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations. By Richard P. Feynman

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought. By Richard P. Feynman

If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible? By Richard P. Feynman

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation. By Richard P. Feynman

The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be. By Richard P. Feynman

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. By Richard P. Feynman

It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand. By Richard P. Feynman

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

It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time. By Richard P. Feynman

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art. By Richard P. Feynman

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. By Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something. By Richard P. Feynman

What I can't create I don't understand By Richard P. Feynman

Some people think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy. By Richard P. Feynman

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something. By Richard P. Feynman

But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea. By Richard P. Feynman

Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this. By Richard P. Feynman

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. By Richard P. Feynman

What did you ASK at school today? By Richard P. Feynman

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident. By Richard P. Feynman

Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right. By Richard P. Feynman

Phenomena complex-laws simple ... Know what to leave out. By Richard P. Feynman

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. By Richard P. Feynman

Few people realize the number of things that are possible. By Richard P. Feynman

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . By Richard P. Feynman

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. By Richard P. Feynman

Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value. By Richard P. Feynman

I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS. By Richard P. Feynman

The unanswerable mysteries ... the attitude that all is uncertain ... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect. By Richard P. Feynman

I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting. By Richard P. Feynman

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature. By Richard P. Feynman

We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know." By Richard P. Feynman

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. By Richard P. Feynman

A great deal more is known than has been proved. By Richard P. Feynman

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. By Richard P. Feynman

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. By Richard P. Feynman

Nature's imagination far surpasses our own. By Richard P. Feynman

The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth. By Richard P. Feynman

The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected. By Richard P. Feynman

I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way. By Richard P. Feynman

The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday. By Richard P. Feynman

Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party. By Richard P. Feynman

In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. By Richard P. Feynman

Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough. By Richard P. Feynman

We are not to tell nature what she's gotta be. She's always got better imagination than we have. By Richard P. Feynman

If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple. By Richard P. Feynman

Nature ... cannot be fooled! By Richard P. Feynman

What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them? By Richard P. Feynman