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Richard P. Feynman. Years, Firsts, Students. 108 Copy quote. 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. Richard P. Feynman. Beautiful, Smart, Science. 142 Copy quote. Fall in love with some activity, and do it!
13 Copy quote. It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life. Richard P. Feynman. Nature, Life Is, Turns. 11 Copy quote. 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. Richard P. Feynman.
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules. Richard P. Feynman. Science, Two, Chess. The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth."
We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. Richard P. Feynman. People, Doubt, Progress. "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1999.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard P. Feynman. Inspirational, Nature, Science. Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident appendix (1986) Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists. Richard P. Feynman.
What I cannot create, I do not understand. Richard P. Feynman. Inspiring, Education, Learning. Quoted in James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know." Richard P. Feynman. Learning, Doubt, Needs.
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.
Richard P. Feynman. Views, Common Sense, Religion. I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics. Richard P. Feynman. Fake People, Thinking, Physics. The Character of Physical Law ch. 6 (1965) There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity.
Documentary (November 23, 1981), later published in "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman" edited by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994. It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week. Richard P. Feynman. Would Be, Physics, Week. ... 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.
