—Richard Feynman. It only adds. We used to call them astronomical numbers. —Richard Feynman. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. Inspirational Quotes & Positive Life Messages QuotesMessages We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.”, “Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.”, “There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. I couldn’t stand the subject. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Quotations by Richard P. Feynman, American Physicist, Born May 11, 1918. What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?”, “It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. God was invented to explain mystery. I don’t know what the reason for this is. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.” – Richard P. Feynman, “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. —Richard Feynman Topics: Intelligence This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.” – Richard P. Feynman. There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. —Richard Feynman. For contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin’ichirō Tomonaga. : Adventures of a Curious Character, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think? What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? Inspiring quotes from Richard Feynman, an American theoretical physicist who became one of the best-known scientists in the world. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. All Richard Feynman Quotes and Sayings - find your favorite inspirational quotes! How did they come to be? The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. It’s their mistake, not my failing.” – Richard P. Feynman, “There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. People search for certainty. 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! Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Surely You're Joking, Mr. There are many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask “Why are we here?” I might think about it a little bit, and if I can’t figure it out then I go on to something else. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.” – Richard P. Feynman, “With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.” – Richard P. Feynman, “Is science of any value? I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I don't understand how it subtracts.”, “Fall in love with some activity, and do it! “Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. Now we should call them economical numbers.”, “Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!” – Richard P. Feynman, “The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.” – Richard P. Feynman, “Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone – both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.” – Richard P. Feynman, “The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.” – 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.” – Richard P. Feynman, “I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.” – 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.” – Richard P. Feynman, “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” – Richard P. Feynman, “Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. - Richard Feynman Why is it aesthetic? But do I see less or more?” – Richard P. Feynman, “I decided to sell my drawings. 9. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose – which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell.” – Richard P. Feynman, “We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.” – Richard P. Feynman, “Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.” – Richard P. Feynman, “I don’t understand what it’s all about or what’s worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.” – Richard P. Feynman. Required fields are marked *. Your email address will not be published. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. But there is no certainty.” – Richard P. Feynman, “If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.” – Richard P. Feynman, “We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions.