Top 36 Richard Feynman Quotes (SCIENCE)

Top 10 Most Famous Richard Feynman Quotes (BEST)

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. — The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are **laughter** and human **compassion**.

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. — Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter.

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. — Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Physics is like sex sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. — Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. — **Work as hard and as much as you want to** on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. — You have no **responsibility** to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.

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. — 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.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. — I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

12 Richard Feynman Quotes About Physics and Education (LEARNING)

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. — Our **responsibility** is to do what we can, **learn** what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is. — Physics isn’t the most important thing. **Love** is.

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics. — If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. — I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

I don't know what's the matter with people they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! — I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t **learn** by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their **knowledge** is so fragile!

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood. — If you can’t explain something to a first year student, then you haven’t really understood.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. — If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

14 Richard Feynman Quotes About Life and Science (NATURE)

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

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

I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb. — I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.

I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!'. — I thought one should have the **attitude** of ‘What do you care what other people think!’.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

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

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part. — If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.

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. — 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.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. — Religion is a culture of **faith**; science is a culture of doubt.

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.

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't', — which is just another way of saying that you can't. — All the time you’re saying to yourself, ‘I could do that, but I won’t’, — which is just another way of saying that you can’t.

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! — 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!

I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing. — I have no **responsibility** to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.

Richard Phillips Feynman Short Biography

Born on 11 May 1918 in New York, New York, United States, Richard Phillips Feynman was a theoretical physicist who was famous for his theory on quantum electrodynamics.

As a child, Feynman was already showing an engineering talent. He graduated with an electrical engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1939.

Feynman’s senior thesis entitled “Forces in Molecules” went on to become the Hellmann – Feynman theorem in later years.

In 1941, Feynman was recruited for the Manhattan Project, a research project during World War II.

Feynman was a theoretical physicist professor at Cornell University from 1945-1950, soon after he became a professor at Caltech (California Institute of Technology) until he died in 1988.

Richard Feynman has several contributions to the scientific community, such as the Feynman path integral and Feynman diagrams, which are still used to this day. In 1965, Feynman was a recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics.

Further Reading:

Richard Feynman, the Physicist Who Didn’t Understand his Own Theories – OpenMind BBVA
How Feynman Diagrams Revolutionized Physics – Quanta Magazine
A Centennial Celebration for Richard Feynman – Caltech.edu

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